Joseph Glass (potter)

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.[3][4]

Joseph Glass
OccupationPotter 

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.[2][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 "Joseph Glass S.V. H.G.") in the British Museum,[3][7] and a cradle, dated 1703, item in the J. W. L. Glaisher collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum.[2][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.[3][11]

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