Joseph Glass (potter) explained

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Joseph Glass (fl. 1670[1] -1703[2] at least) was a potter, working in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, England.[3] He worked in slipware, and is one of the first potters known to have signed and dated his work.[4]

His name was included in a 1776 list drawn up by Josiah Wedgwood "having examined some of the oldest men in the pottery here [...] who knew personally the masters in the pottery..." and published in his A History of the Adams Family of North Staffordshire.[5]

Glass' work, which has been compared to that of Thomas Toft,[6] is in a number of public collections, including a posset pot (inscribed "") in the British Museum,[7] and a cradle, dated 1703, item in the J. W. L. Glaisher collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum.[8] [9] [10]

In March 2020, a jug with his signature, and the date 1701, was shown on the BBC Television programme Antiques Roadshow.[3] It was valued at £20,000 by John Sandon.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hanley: Local government, economic history and social life British History Online . www.british-history.ac.uk . Meigh, 'Staffs. Potters', 86, gives c. 1670 as the earliest ref. to Joseph Glass. . 9 March 2020.
  2. Book: Godden . Geoffrey A. . Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks . 1964 . Barrie & Jenkins . 978-0-257-65782-0 . 275 .
  3. Battle Abbey 1 . Antiques Roadshow . Antiques Roadshow . 6 March 2020 . BBC Television . 1 March 2020 . 42. 1 .
  4. Web site: A Staffordshire Slipware Inscribed Dish, Circa 1695-1720, Hanley, Signed Joseph Glass . . 9 March 2020 .
  5. Web site: Joseph Glass . The Potteries . 9 March 2020.
  6. Web site: Royal Arms charger . . 9 March 2020 .
  7. Web site: posset-pot . British Museum . 12 March 2020.
  8. Book: Rhead . G. Woolliscroft . The earthenware collector . 1920 . New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. . 50 .
  9. Book: Rackham . Bernard Rackham . Bernard . Catalogue of the Glaisher collection of pottery & porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge . 1935 . Cambridge University Press.
  10. no.254 & pl.23F in Rackham's catalogue, op.cit.
  11. News: Milward . Charlie . Antiques Roadshow guest speechless over valuation of rare vase . 9 March 2020 . Express.co.uk . 5 March 2020 . en.

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