It is a scholarly work of research on the development of ceramics in Wales. Subjects covered in Part I are early Swansea printed earthenwares, Lewis Weston Dillwyn and the Cambrian Pottery, “the Glamorgan Pottery, Swansea and some comparisons with the Cambrian”, and much on William Billingsley.
Contributors include Robert Copeland and Geoffrey Godden, and in his preface Lord St Davids comments that the study of Welsh ceramics has been been pursued in isolation to that of the rest of the ceramics industry, William Turner, C. Morton Nance and W.D. John notwithstanding. Given the particular lack of current research into Welsh ceramics, the idea of the summer school was born. Part ll, based on 2003’s seminar, will be published later this year and will offer new evidence of links between Wales, Staffordshire, Bristol and America.
Welsh connection in focus
Welsh Ceramics in Context: Part I, edited by Jonathan Gray, published by the Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea Museum, Victoria Road, Swansea SAl lSN. ISBN 0950851752 £17.50sb. THIS well-illustrated book is based on the papers delivered to the first Welsh Ceramics in Context seminar held at Clyne Castle in 2002.
