Shards Newsletter
Below you will find links to a Topic Index and Speaker Index to past issues of SHARDS, as well as a page from which you should be able to open any recent issue. Please let me know if you find an issue you can't open. After finding an item in one of the indexes, close that index, go to the Issues page, find the issue you want, click on it and scroll through it to the article you are looking for.
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SHARDS INDEX - TOPICS
- A Ceramic Decade at the MFA: Fall, 2025
- A Potter's Journey into Delftware: Winter/Spring, 2026
- A Studio Potter on American Ceramic History: January, 2018
- Abraham Isaac - Portsmouth merchant: January, 2007
- ACC tour to China: September, 2009
- American Art Pottery and the MFA: Spring, 2017
- American studio pottery & marks: May, 2018
- American women in studio ceramics: April, 2012
- Architectural Clay: Spring, 2022
- Art Pottery (American): January, 2003
- Asian export porcelain in Salem: April, 2021
- Attribution in English ceramics: January, 1999
- Avalon, Newfoundland: April, 2003
- Bennington pottery: August, 1999
- Betsy Patterson Bonaparte's collection: September, 2006
- Bits & Pieces: Members' pieces, Spring annually
- Boar's head porcelain tureens
- Busch-Reisinger field trip: Spring, 2020
- British ceramic treasures from the Mint Museum: Spring, 2017
- Ceramic Acquisitions at Historic Deerfield: Winter, 2023
- Ceramics for the bedchamber: September, 2003
- Charlestown Redware: Autumn, 2018
- Charlestown's Enslaved Potters: Jack and Acton: Winter, 2023
- Charlotte Schreiber, collector: September, 2007
- Chelsea botanical porcelain & the Landscape Garden: April, 2018
- Cheryl Robertson - In Memory: September, 2013
- China, Korea & Japan - overlapping ceramic traditions: Autumn, 2022
- China Students Club history: May, 2004
- Chinese Export Porcelain in Spanish Colonies: January, 2015
- Chinese Imperial porcelain
- Chinese Landscapes on English Pottery: Fall, 2024
- Chinese porcelain - Red glazes and designs: Fall, 2016
- Chinese unfired clay portrait figures 1717-1798: September, 2017
- Chinoiserie Movement in British Ceramics: Spring, 2025
- Christopher Dresser: June, 2000
- Collecting for an early coastal home: January, 2007
- Colley collection: June, 2001
- Commemoratives: January, 2004
- Creamware - English at Historic Deerfield: September, 2010
- Creamware for the American market: May, 2011
- Creamware: January, 1998
- Creamware: Sampson collection: April, 2007
- Cutlery and table settings: September, 2002
- Delftware: December, 2001; March, 2002
- Delftware - English and Irish at the British Museum: January, 2012
- Delftware in the palaces of William & Mary: January, 2005
- Diane Chen Ceramics: Autumn, 2015
- Early English Pottery: September, 2002
- Early Irish Fine-Ceramics: Winter, 2023
- Earthenware: demonstration: January, 2004
- Earthenware - Greek classical at MFA: January, 2006
- Earthenware: production techniques: August, 1998
- Edward Lycett's Faience Manufacturing Company: September, 2007
- English Art Pottery: May, 2010
- English Commemorative Delftware: Spring, 2024
- English tea ceremony: January, 2007
- European porcelain at the Metropolitan
- European porcelain: Spring, 2020
- Fidéle Duvivier, ceramic decorator: Spring 2022
- Fired Up - 75th anniversary show: January, 2012
- French Tin-Glazed Earthenware: January 2015
- H A Crosby Forbes (obituary): September, 2012
- Harriet Goldweitz collection: August, 1999
- Hawes, Vivian (obituary): December, 2001
- Historic Archeology - from Boston's Big Dig: September, 2013
- Historic Archeology - from Newbury and Portsmouth: August, 1998
- Historic Archeology - Ferryland, Newfoundland: May, 2010
- Historic Archeology - Hampshire Pottery: Spring, 2015
- Historic Archeology - Newfoundland: April, 2005
- Historic Archeology - Portsmouth: December, 2001
- Historic ceramic miniatures: September, 2012
- Historic Deerfield - Chinese export porcelain: September, 2005
- Historic Deerfield - creamware collection: April, 2007
- Historic Deerfield collection: August, 1999
- Historic Deerfield delftware: September, 2002
- Historic New England - Hidden Ceramic Gems: Autumn, 2015
- Historic New England - Ceramics collection, redware: March, 2018
- Horace Walpole Collection: January, 2004
- Hugh Robertson ceramics: September, 2009
- Huntington, Long Island pottery: January, 2005
- Identifying ceramics: materials & methods of manufacture: October, 2017
- Ivory and porcelain Sculpture in Dresden: January, 2021
- Japanese ceramics: September, 2004
- Japanese export porcelain: September, 2013
- Japanese porcelain: December, 2001
- Jingdezhen: September, 2002
- Korean ceramics: May, 2004; Spring 2014
- Kutahya Pottery at the MFA: Spring, 2016
- Latin American art and Asia: January, 2005
- Lenox Pottery: Spring 2014
- Lloyd and Vivian Hawes collection: December, 2001
- Lustreware (English): April, 2003
- Maiolica: January, 1998
- Making It Small: Spring, 2022
- Marblehead Pottery: September, 2002
- Marblehead Pottery: Fall, 2023
- Martha Washington's 'United States China': Spring, 2024
- Material Culture of Amsterdam: Spring, 2025
- Mended ceramics in the 18th century: Spring, 2015
- Mexican Blue & White: April, 2012
- Ming Goes Bling: Spring, 2016
- Minoan ceramics: January, 2012
- Modern Potters - Traditional: Autumn, 2022
- Mottahedeh collection: January, 2001
- Museum of Fine Arts✝ - acquisitions: September, 2005
- Museum of Fine Arts✝ - ceramic update: March 2013
- Native American and other Ceramics at the PEM: Winter, 2023
- Native American Pottery: September, 2003
- Native American Southwestern pottery: Spring, 2017
- Nature displayed on the dinner table
- Neoclassical ceramics in the American home: Spring, 2017
- New York ceramics fair: May, 2011
- Pearlware and Wedgwood: January, 2009
- Polly Latham gallery field trip: March 2013
- Porcelain - Canton: January, 2001
- Porcelain - Chinese Blue & White: May, 2009
- Porcelain - Chinese Export at Washington & Lee University: Sept., 2010
- Porcelain - Chinese Export in Newfoundland
- Porcelain - new research in Chinese Export: May, 2011
- Porcelain - Derby Blue & White: April, 2003
- Porcelain - garden models: January, 2006
- Porcelain - imports to Salem: September, 2004
- Porcelain - Japanese Export: January, 2008
- Porcelain - Liverpool: June, 2001
- Porcelain - Meissen figures: June, 2001
- Porcelain - Meissen and Du Paquier: Worcester, Ma. Trip: Spring, 2015
- Porcelain - Ming (& Ming culture): April, 2008
- Porcelain - New Hall: February, 2000
- Porcelain - Qing Blue & White, distinguishing early and late: May, 2011
- Porcelain - Polychrome, Qing Export: January, 2003
- Porcelain - SËvres painters: May, 2004
- Porcelain - the Yuan revolution: April, 2007
- Porcelain - Western scenes on Chinese Export: September, 2012
- Porcelain - Worcester: January, 1998
- Portuguese Faience in Early New England: Spring, 2016
- Pueblo pot-making: May, 2011
- Purchasing ceramics in Central Massachusetts: May, 2011
- Quimper: August, 1998
- Recent Acquisitions at the MFA: November, 2017
- Redwares with Medicinal Properties: Fall 2025
- Refrigerator wares: Fall, 2019
- Restoration: February, 2000; March 2013
- Revolution & rebellion in ceramics, March: 2021
- Rudolph Just (Utz) collection: March, 2002
- Saturday Evening Girls (Sarah Galner): January, 2008
- Schloss Favorite collection: January, 1998
- Selling Chinese Porcelain with Polly: Fall 2025
- Shelburne Museum Collection: Spring, 2025
- Shoji Hamada: Spring, 2024
- Sixty Years with Pots: Fall, 2023
- Song Dynasty ceramics, Jun wares: April, 2005
- Spanish Colonial Pottery: January, 2015
- SPNEA (Historic New England) Collection: February, 2000
- Spode: January, 1999
- Staffordshire: January, 2008; American themes and collection: Spring 2014
- Staffordshire figures: April, 2008
- Ten Ceramic Stories: Winter/Spring 2026
- The Staffordshire Pottery Trade - supplying American markets: Autumn, 2022
- Stammers, Grace Lyman (obituary): August, 1998
- Stoneware - Boston, utilitarian: September, 2013
- Stoneware - English brown: January, 2003
- Stoneware - English & German, &c., Fall, 2019
- Stoneware - white salt-glazed: September, 2008
- Stoneware - unglazed red teawares: September, 2006
- Stoneware - Westerwald (in America): January, 2004
- Sturbridge Village ceramic collection: August, 1999; January, 2004
- Tea, coffee and chocolate: January, 2009
- Teawares: August, 1998
- Tiffany Pottery: January, 2015
- Tiles: April, 2007
- Tiles in Portsmouth houses: September, 2008
- Tools for making early British pots: May, 2011
- Toshiko Takaezu: Spring, 2024
- Trading Earth - RISD Curator's Tour: Fall, 2024
- Transfer-printed creamwares: real or repro?
- Tucker porcelain: Fall, 2016
- Turkish Ceramics and European copies: May, 2009
- Warner House, Portsmouth ceramics: June, 2000, Fall, 2016
- Warner House exhibit: Fall, 2019
- Wedgwood: August, 1998; June, 2001
- Wedgwood - new trends in collecting: January, 2012
- Wedgwood's shell wares
- The Wedgwood Club and its stars, May: 2021
- Whistler's Peacock Room and Eastern Ceramics: Spring 2022
- White House China: June, 2000
- William de Morgan’s ‘Ottoman’ Ceramics: Fall 2025
- Worcester Porcelain, Rienzi Collection: Winter/Spring 2026
- Yuan Blue & White: Autumn, 2015
SHARDS INDEX - SPEAKERS
- Albainy, Tracey: September, 2005
- Alves, Filomena & Paolo Cunha: September, 2012
- Austin, John: December, 2001
- Bagley, Joe: September, 2013; Fall, 2018; Winter, 2023
- Bailey, Gauvin: January, 2005
- Bard, Yon: June, 2001; March, 2002; September, 2007
- Barth, Bob: June, 2000; September, 2006; Fall, 2019
- Barker, David: January, 2008
- Barnett, Adele Ierubino: Autumn, 2018
- Bassett, Debbie: January, 2012
- Bennie, Melissa: Spring 2014
- Beaudry, Mary: August, 1998
- Blanchet, Sean: March 2013
- Bowers, Stephen: Spring, 2016
- Brody, Michael: January, 1998
- Brown, Jeffrey: May, 2011; March, 2013; Fall, 2025
- Brown, Peter: March, 2002
- Butera, Anthony: January, 2005
- Carlisle, Nancy: February, 2000, Autumn, 2015, March, 2018; Fall 2025
- Carpentier, Donald: August, 1998; January, 2004; January, 2011
- Carr, Dennis: January 2015
- Chasse, Sarah: Winter, 2023
- Chilton, Meredith: Spring, 2015
- Chellis, Robert: May, 2021
- Chen, Diane: Autumn, 2015
- Cole, Caroline: Fall, 2016
- Collins, Elizabeth: May, 2021
- Copeland, William: January, 1999
- Corrigan, Karina: September, 2009; September, 2013
- Cummings, Barbara: August, 1998
- Dawes, Nicholas: October 2017
- Dawson, Aileen: January, 2012
- Denny, Walter: May, 2009
- Detweiler, Susan: June, 2000
- Douglas, Betsy: April, 2003
- Dreux, Virginia: January, 2005
- Eastman, Daniel Bruce: August, 1998
- Earp, Stephen: Autumn, 2022; Winter/Spring, 2026
- Edwards, Diana: August, 1998; September, 2008
- Eidelberg, Martin: January, 2015
- Emmerson, Robin: January, 1999; January, 2007
- Evits, Echo: February, 2000
- Ewins, Neil: Autumn, 2022
- Fairbanks, Jonathan: January, 2011
- Ferland, Donald: May, 2004
- Foster, Karen: January, 2012
- Francis, Peter: Winter, 2023
- Fuchs, Ron: September, 2010; Spring, 2024; Fall, 2024
- Gadsden, Nonie: January, 2008; Spring, 2017; Spring, 2024
- Gallagher, Brian: Spring, 2017
- Gaskin, Steve: Autumn, 2015
- German, Lorraine: September, 2013
- Gervais, Christine: Winter/Spring, 2027
- Glosband, Merry: Spring, 2017
- Glazer, Lee: Spring, 2022
- Goldsborough, Jennifer: September, 2006; January, 2009
- Goldweitz, Harriet: August, 1999; March, 2002
- Grigsby, Leslie: September, 2002
- Grimm, Ulrike: January, 1998
- Halfpenny, Patricia: January, 2011
- Halliday, Richard: Spring, 2025
- Harvey, Wendy: April, 2007
- Hillis, Maurice: June, 2001; April, 2003
- Holgate, David: February, 2000
- Homer, Gail: Fall, 2025
- Horne, Jonathan: January, 2003
- Houston, Katherine: January, 2006
- Hunter, Rob: September, 2002; January, 2009; Winter/Spring, 2026
- Jacob-Hanson, Charlotte: Spring, 2022
- Jayasena, Ranjith: Spring, 2025
- Johnson, Nicholas: May, 2010; Spring, 2016; Fall, 2023
- Jones, Dorothy-Lee: December, 2001; June, 2001
- Jörg, Christian: January, 2008
- Kaufman, Jim: September, 2009
- Kerr, Rose: May, 2009
- Kevill-Davies, Sally: April, 2018
- Kuettner, Angelika: Spring, 2015
- Lange, Amanda: August, 1999; September, 2002; September, 2003; September, 2005; January, 2009; September, 2010; Spring, 2017; March, 2021; Winter 2023;
- Lanier, Jessica: September, 2004
- Latham, Polly: March 2013
- L'Ecuyer, Kelly: April, 2012
- Mali, Millicent: August, 1998
- Manners, Errol: Fall, 2025
- Maske, Andrew: December, 2001; September, 2004; Spring, 2024
- McCaffrey-Howarth, Caroline: Spring, 2024
- McLeod, Bet: January, 2004
- McQuade, Margaret: April, 2012
- Mellin, Richard: January, 2001
- Messineo, Jim: January, 2003
- Meyer, Marilee Boyd: September, 2002; Fall, 2023
- Michie, Tom: March 2013; November, 2017; Winter/Spring 2026
- Miller, Aaron: March 2013
- Morgan, Lan: April, 2021
- Mowry, Robert: May 2004; April 2005; April 2007; April 2008; Spring 2014; Fall 2016; Autumn 2018; Autumn 2022;
- Munger, Jeffrey: Spring 2019
- Nadler, Daniel: January, 2003
- Newsome, Allison: Spring, 2022
- Nicholls, Linda Foss: September, 2003
- Pendery, Steven: Spring, 2016
- Pinello, Martha: August, 1998; Spring, 2015; Fall, 2016
- Philbrick, John: January, 2004
- Poulsen, Jennifer: September, 2013
- Richardson, Louise: June, 2000; December, 2001; April, 2003; April, 2005
- Rickard, Jonathan: January, 2004
- Roberts, Letitia: January, 2001
- Robertson, Cheryl: June, 2000
- Rogers, Kory: Spring, 2025
- Roth, Linda: May, 2004
- Roy, Carolyn Parsons: December, 2001, January, 2007
- Russell, Pamela: January, 2006
- Rux, Sandra: September, 2008
- Sargent, William: September, 2002; May, 2011; September, 2012; September, 2017; Spring, 2019
- Schkolne, Myrna: April, 2008
- Schriber, Peter: September, 2013
- Shapiro, Mark: Spring 2018
- Sigalas, Vanessa: January, 2021
- Slavid, Stuart: June, 2001; January, 2011
- Sousa, Daniel: Autumn 2018; March, 2021
- Spero, Simon: January, 1998
- Stevens, David: May, 2011
- Szalay, Gabriella: Spring, 2020
- Teitelman, S. Robert: January, 1998
- Thomas, Justin: March, 2018
- Tuck, James: May, 2010
- Vida, Martha: May, 2018
- Vander Sande, John: January, 2007
- Veith, Barbara: September, 2007
- Ward, Gerry: January, 2009; Fall, 2019
- Wessel, Lee-Ann: September, 2012; Spring, 2022
- Williams, Elizabeth: Spring 2019; Fall 2024
- Wolverton, Nan: August, 1999; January, 2004; January, 2011; Spring 2014
- Zeller, Loren: Spring, 2025
- Zusy, Cathy: August, 1999
