PRE 1850s SCOTTISH TRANSFER PRINTED WARES

Thursday, 1PM EDT

Tittle: PRE 1850s SCOTTISH TRANSFER PRINTED WARES

Speaker: George Haggarty

Not every piece of blue and white was produced in Staffordshire and Scotland had a number of potteries. Now, thanks in part to archaeology, our early Scottish wares are better understood and identified. Documentary research tells us that at first, mainly from potteries in the Forth littoral, trade was to Scandinavia, Europe and ports in the Mediterranean. Quickly catching up and then overtaking them, were the larger Glasgow area potteries. At first these mainly shipped west to Canada, the USA and the Caribbean, before later adding markets in the Far East and Australia.

George is a Research Associate at the National Museums Scotland, and fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He has published mainly on 12th to 19th century Scottish ceramics, with in excess of 200 papers, monographs, books. This year will see in print, volumes three, ‘Figures and Plaques’ and four, ‘Plates, Bowls and Miscellaneous’ from the Leslie Collection. With the success of the recently concluded program of ICP-MS analysis on 17th and 18th century drug jars from Edinburgh Castle and Edinburgh Old Burgh, he is keen to expand his research on Tin-Glazed earthenware imported into Scotland. Also underway is a book on the ceramic industries of Portobello and a booklet on the Potteries of Port Dundas in Glasgow.

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