A Potter's Progress: Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft

by Scott Suter and Scott Hamilton Suter

Born into a traditional culture in 1833, Emanuel Suter cultivated the art of pottery and expanded markets across the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, creating a thriving company and leaving thousands of examples of utilitarian ceramic ware that have survived down to the present. Drawing on Suter's diary--rich with meticulous descriptions of his ceramic wares, along with glazing recipes and the quotidian details of nineteenth-century business--as well...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162190525X
• ISBN13: 9781621905257
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"