Godden's Guide to English Blue and White Porcelain - Brief Article - Book Review

Magazine Antiques, Feb, 2004

Godden's Guide to English Blue and White Porcelain

By Geoffrey A. Godden

MA-226

Our price $89.50

This is the first book about these popular and beautiful ceramics to be published in thirty years. Godden treats twenty makers including the only recently discovered eighteenth-century factories at Isleworth, Limehouse, and Vauxhall. There are illuminating chapters on fakes and forgeries, and the history of collecting blue-and-white wares. There is a wealth of illustrative material that helps identify features such as rims, handles, and marks. 153 colorplates, 750 illustrations.

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