Howell G M Edwards: 3 books
Swansea and Nantgarw Porcelains
A Scientific Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book describes a holistic study of the porcelain manufactured at Nantgarw and Swansea in the first quarter of the 19th Century, using both scientific analytical data and historical provenancing. This porcelain is acclaimed as some of the finest and most translucent porcelain ever produced. These...
Nantgarw and Swansea Porcelains
An Analytical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This book gives a detailed account of the holistic research carried out on the analytical data obtained historically on the products of the Nantgarw and Swansea porcelain manufactories which existed for a few years only during the second decade of the 19th Century. A background to the establishment...
Porcelain to Silica Bricks
The Extreme Ceramics of William Weston Young (1776-1847)
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
The title of this book describes the two extremes of ceramic invention from aesthetically beautiful and decorative works of art that graced the tables of the aristocracy to the functional silica brick that lined the smelting furnaces of industrialised nations in the 19th century designed to produce...