Early Stoneware Steins from the Les Paul Collection is intended as a handbook for the beginning collector, and a reference work for the researcher, regardless of whether he or she is in America or Germany. Based on the collection of American Les Paul, the text is in both German and English. May this book be an aid to value the steins as an art piece, and to look more carefully at the minutest detail to learn how to read the steins individual story. Early Stoneware Steins aims to enable the readers to appreciate the beauty, to learn about the history, and expand their knowledge of early German stoneware steins.
Early Stoneware Steins covers significant German stoneware centers, even if they are sometimes located outside Germany's borders today. These are: the Rhenish production places of Frechen, Koln, Raeren, Siegburg, and Westerwald, the centers in central Germany such as Creussen, in Franconia or Dreihausen and Duingen in Hesse, the Thiuringian and Saxon centers in Altenburg, Annaberg, Burgel, Freiberg, Rochilitz, Waldenburg, and Zeitz, as well as the workshops in the east, like Bunzlau in Silesia or Muskau in Lusatia.
Using the 181 pieces, largely steins and only a few other vessels, a survey has been provided for 17 stoneware centers, as well as a cross section of their various phases of production. Each production place is introduced with a map and facts about the locations, the history of the city and the city today, a survey of the ceramics tradition and the development of the potters guild, the different workshops,m and finally, the materials, techniques, shapes, and decoration used there.
After this first part, based on history and general information, all of the items are presented with high quality, large full color photos, supplemented with numerous details as well as the corresponding pewter marks, listed in the appendix. Topics discussed in the first part are sometimes repeated for emphasis in the following pictorial section.
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