Staffordshire Animals: A Collector's Guide to History, Styles, and Values - Hardcover

Kenny, Adele

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764304224 ISBN 13: 9780764304224

Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

This comprehensive new reference focuses on the variety of animal figures produced in Staffordshire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Characterized by a cottage industry quaintness, Staffordshire figures were known as "image toys" and "chimney ornaments" in their day. Countless subjects were produced but the animal models comprise a Noah's Ark of some of the most charming and endearing figures. Today, Staffordshire animals are among the bestselling and most widely collected antique ceramics. Beautifully illustrated with over 400 color photographs, this book traces animal figure evolution through chapters on animals in art, British ceramics, Staffordshire potters and potteries, and production techniques and styles. Informative captions provide descriptions, dates of manufacture, and current values.

About this title

About the Author:

Adele Kenny is an experienced specialist collector whose ancestors lived in Staffordshire and worked in the potteries. She is the author of Staffordshire Spaniels: A Collector's Guide to History, Styles, and Values, also available from Schiffer Publishing. She is the author of 23 books (poetry & nonfiction). Her poems, reviews, and articles have been published in journals worldwide, and her poems have appeared in books and anthologies published by Crown, Tuttle, Shambhala, and McGraw-Hill. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her poetry, including two fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a first place Merit Book Award, a Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, and a Writer's Digest Poetry Award. A former professor of creative writing in the College of New Rochelle's Graduate School, she is the founding director of the Carriage House Poetry Series and poetry editor of Tiferet. 
Website: adelekenny.com/
Poetry Blog: adelekenny.blogspot.com/

About this edition

• Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0764304224
• ISBN 13: 9780764304224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192