Pottery was made in the United States by the middle of the seventeenth century, but the first recorded attempt to make porcelain was by Andrew Duche in Georgia about 1738. Other potters tried with little success until the late 1760s.…
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Sometimes the best reference material is a catalog from a museum exhibit. Bringing Modernism Home: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1890-1960, by Carol Boram-Hays (Ohio University Press, Athens, OH, c2005, 241 pages; hardcover, $40; large-format paperback, $26) was published for an exhibit…