France.—Mareschal, “Faïence Populaire au 18me Siècle,” with one hundred and twelve finely-colored plates, mostly of French and Delft ware (Paris, 1872); Pottier, “Histoire de la Faïence de Rouen” (1870), two volumes, quarto—an elaborate and finely-illustrated treatise; Pouy, “Les Faïences d’Origine Picarde” (1872), with colored plates and marks; Forestié, “Les Anciennes Faienceries de Montauban,” and other places in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne. On the pottery of the Gauls, see Du Cleuzion, “Poterie Gauloise.” A publication by the Arundel Society gives fine photographs of twenty examples of “Henri-Deux ware” from the South Kensington Museum.
Italy, Germany, Spain, etc.—On “maiolica,” see the history by Passeri, treating of the products of Pesaro and Urbino, and of the works of Giorgio da Gubbio. On “maiolica and Italian faience,” see the splendidly-illustrated works by Delange and Sauzay, “Monographe de l’Œuvre de Bernard Palissy” (Paris, 1872); and the “Recueil de Faïences Italiennes” of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries (Paris, 1869), by Delanges, Darcel, and Bornemann. Fortnum’s “Maiolica;” also his “Catalogue of Maiolica, Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian wares in the South Kensington Museum,” finely illustrated in color, and giving marks and monograms; “Centennial Exposition Catalogue of the Castellani Collection;” Beckwith’s “Majolica and Fayence” (New York, 1877) is a concise and useful general treatise on ceramics, containing much information in small space, with numerous photo-engraved illustrations; Drake’s “Notes on Venetian Ceramics;” Riaño, “Catalogue of Art Objects of Spanish Production in the South Kensington Museum;” De Jorio, “Galleria de’ Vasi, Real Museo Borbonico;” “Le Secret des Vraies Porcelaines de la Chine et de Saxe” (1752); Robinson, “Catalogue of the Soulages Collection.” Asselineau, “Meubles et Objets divers du Moyen Âge” gives specimens of Palissy and Flemish ware. Lazari, “Notizie della raccolta Correr di Venezia.”
Oriental and Savage Races.—Alabaster, “Chinese Art Objects in South Kensington Museum;” Audsley and Bowes, “Keramic Art,” now in course of publication, splendidly illustrated with colored plates by Racinet; Jarves, “Glimpse at the Art of Japan;” Schweinfurth, “Artes Africanæ;” Hartt, “Manufacture of Pottery among Savage Races.” On the cloisonné enamels of China, see appendix to Julien’s “Industries de l’Empire Chinois.” On “Chinese porcelain decoration,” consult “Owen Jones’s Examples of Chinese Ornament,” giving one hundred fine colored plates, from examples at South Kensington.
Tiles.—Nichols’s “Examples of Decorative Tiles, in fac-simile, chiefly in Original Size;” chapter entitled “Céramique,” by Riocreux and Jacquemart, in volume iv. of Lacroix’s “Moyen Âge et la Renaissance,” which contains a bibliography of ceramics.
Ancient Pottery.—Birch’s “History of Ancient Pottery” treats of Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Celtic, Teutonic, and Scandinavian pottery, and is fully illustrated. It contains also a list of the principal collections of ancient pottery. One of the best works is Millingen’s “Ancient Unedited Monuments,” giving excellent colored illustrations of painted Greek vases. Other valuable works are those of Inghirami, “Pitture di Vasi Etrusche,” four volumes quarto, with fine outlines of Greek vase-decoration, some in color; a very beautifully-illustrated work (in color) is that of the Count of Syracuse, “Notizia dei Vasi dipinti rinvenuti a Cuma;” see also Lucien Bonaparte’s “Museum Étrusque;” Donati, “Della Maniera d’interpretare le Pitture ne’ Vasi fittili antichi;” “Description of the Ancient Terra-Cottas in the British Museum,” illustrated by line-engravings; Stackelberg, “Die Gräber der Hellenen,” giving plates of urns, vases, bass-reliefs, etc.; Dumont, “Inscriptions Céramiques de Grèce;” Fabroni, “Vasi fittili aretini;” Kramer, “Ueber den Styl und die Herkunft der bemalten griechischen Thongefässe;” De Sanctis, “Vasi antichi della Collezione Hamilton,” with outline illustrations; G. Gerhard, “Vases Grecs relatifs aux Mystères,” outline illustrations; Gerhard, “Etruskische und kampanische Vasenbilder” (Berlin, 1843), with finely-colored illustrations of vases; Gerhard, “Auserlesene griechische Vasenbilder” (Berlin, 1856), two volumes text, two volumes plates, quarto, also admirably illustrated; Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, part iii., “Fictile Vases;” Schliemann, “Trojanische Alterthümer;” “British Museum Catalogue of Greek and Etruscan Vases,” with outlines; “Catalogue of the St. Petersburg Imperial Collection of Vases in the Ermitage,” with sixteen plates of outlines; Inghirami, “Etrusco Museo Chinsino,” copperplate outlines; “Engravings of Ancient Vases in the Collection of Sir William Hamilton” (Naples, 1791), three volumes folio.
On Egyptian pottery consult Wilkinson’s “Ancient Egyptians;” and the splendid illustrated volumes of Champollion, Lepsius, and Belzoni, for illustrations from the monuments.
Biography.—Jouveaux, “Histoire de trois Potiers Celèbres,” biographical sketches of Palissy, Wedgwood, and Böttger; “Lessons from Noble Lives” (Palissy); see C. C. Perkins’s “Tuscan Sculptors,” volume i., for a chapter on “Luca della Robbia,” also in Vasari; Vasari, volume xiii., page 72, “Vita di Battista Franco.” For a list of books of reference on “ceramics,” see Chaffers’s “Marks and Monograms.”