A diverse range of essays, new discoveries, and book reviews on the latest research of interest to ceramics scholars. The 2017 volume of Ceramics in America contains the final contribution from Ivor Noël Hume, a long-time friend and contributor to the journal, and fourteen articles highlighting important ceramic discoveries from archaeological contexts in St. Augustine, Florida; Charleston, South Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; Alexandria, Hampton, Williamsburg, and Jamestown, Virginia; St. Mary's City, London Town, and Annapolis, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New York, New York; and Boston and Plymouth, Massachusetts. Anyone with an interest in America's ceramic history will enjoy the diversity of ceramic forms and types that have been uncovered through archaeological research. The remarkable finds discussed here range from a sixteenth-century Spanish majolica dish found in St. Augustine to a late-nineteenth-century Zuni water jar recovered from an urban New Orleans well. This volume will be an important resource for years to come. Now in its seventeenth year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramics scholarship in the American context and is intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians, and contemporary potters.
Editorial statement / Robert Hunter -- Introduction / Robert Hunter -- A devil in the details / Ivor Noël Hume -- Alexandria, Virginia / Barbara H. Magid -- Charleston, South Carolina / Martha A Zierden with Ronald Anthony, Sarah Stroud Clarke, Lisa Hudgins, James Legg, Eric Poplin, Carl Steen, and Michael Stoner -- Hampton, Virginia / Robert Hunter -- Historic St. Mary's City, Maryland / Silas Hurry -- Boston, Massachusetts / Joseph M. Bagley and Jennifer L. Poulsen -- Spanish St. Augustine, Florida / Kathleen Deagan and Carl Halbirt -- Plymouth, Massachusetts / Steven R. Pendery and Marley R. Brown III -- New Orleans, Louisiana / D. Ryan Gray -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Deborah L. Miller and Jed Levin -- New York, New York / Meta F. Janowitz and Diana diZerega Wall -- Jamestown, Virginia: Virginia Company period / Bly Straube -- Annapolis and London Town, Maryland / Al Luckenbach -- Williamsburg, Virginia / Suzanne Findlen Hood -- Jamestown and Governor's Land, James City County, Virginia / Merry Outlaw.