Masterpieces of Art Pottery: 1880–1930 Maritime This heirloom-quality coffee-table book offers

This heirloom-quality coffee-table book offers a glimpse of Martinsburg and Berkeley County from the 1800s to 1939 through stunning and historic photos

Community memories and monumental events

Many of the images inside are extremely rare – culled through extensive research by staff librarians and archivists

ISBN: 9781597254533

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Masterpieces of Art Pottery: 1880–1930 Maritime This heirloom-quality coffee-table book offersThe Newark Museum began exhibiting art pottery in 1910, just one year after it was founded. A century later, the Museum boasts one of the most historically important and well documented art pottery collections in the nation. John Cotton Dana, founding director of the Museum, saw pottery as the ideal way to involve the average museum visitor with art. A vase was functional, but it could also be set on a shelf and appreciated for both its beauty and its