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Joseph Glass
Occupation Potter
Joseph Glass (
fl. 1670
[1] -1703
[2] at least) was a
potter , working in
Hanley , in the
Staffordshire Potteries , England.
[3] He worked in
slipware , and is one of the first potters known to have signed and dated his work.
[3]
[4]
His name was included in a 1776 list drawn up by
Josiah Wedgwood "having examined some of the oldest men in the pottery here [...] who knew personally the masters in the pottery..." and published in his A History of the Adams Family of North Staffordshire .
[2]
[5]
Glass' work, which has been compared to that of
Thomas Toft ,
[6] is in a number of public collections, including a
posset pot (inscribed "Joseph Glass S.V. H.G. ") in the
British Museum ,
[3]
[7] and a cradle, dated 1703, item in the
J. W. L. Glaisher collection at the
Fitzwilliam Museum .
[2]
[8]
[9]
[10]
In March 2020, a jug with his signature, and the date 1701, was shown on the
BBC Television programme
Antiques Roadshow .
[3] It was valued at £20,000 by
John Sandon .
[3]
[11]
References
^
"Hanley: Local government, economic history and social life | British History Online" . www.british-history.ac.uk . Retrieved 9 March 2020 . Meigh, 'Staffs. Potters', 86, gives c. 1670 as the earliest ref. to Joseph Glass.
^
a
b
c Godden, Geoffrey A. (1964).
Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks . Barrie & Jenkins. p. 275.
ISBN
978-0-257-65782-0 .
^
a
b
c
d
e
"Battle Abbey 1" .
Antiques Roadshow . Series 42. Episode 1. 1 March 2020. BBC Television. Retrieved 6 March 2020 .
^
"A Staffordshire Slipware Inscribed Dish, Circa 1695-1720, Hanley, Signed Joseph Glass" .
Christie's . Retrieved 9 March 2020 .
^
"Joseph Glass" . The Potteries . Retrieved 9 March 2020 .
^
"Royal Arms charger" .
Chipstone Foundation . Retrieved 9 March 2020 .
^
"posset-pot" . British Museum . Retrieved 12 March 2020 .
^ Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (1920).
The earthenware collector . New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. p. 50.
^
Rackham, Bernard (1935). Catalogue of the Glaisher collection of pottery & porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge . Cambridge University Press.
^ no.254 & pl.23F in Rackham's catalogue, op.cit.
^ Milward, Charlie (5 March 2020).
"Antiques Roadshow guest speechless over valuation of rare vase" . Express.co.uk . Retrieved 9 March 2020 .