Joseph Glass (potter)

Joseph Glass
Occupation	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]}

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, 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.