Reference Library
Below are recommended reference books and links for those wishing to learn more about individual pottery companies.
Each includes detailed information regarding the identification, marks, dates, glazes and history about that particular pottery company or artist.
The books pictured in each link below were photographed from our own personal reference collection and are not for sale here but can be purchased through other retailers and in some instances, directly through the publisher or authors themselves.
~ Simply select a name below ~
- Abingdon Pottery
- Adams Ceramics and Pottery
- Alabama Folk Pottery
- Alamo Pottery
- Allach Porcelain
- American Bisque Pottery (including ABCO and APCO)
- American Indian Pottery
- Anna Pottery (Cornwall and Wallace Kirkpatrick)
- Arequipa Pottery
- Barbara Willis Pottery
- Bauer Pottery
- Beswick Pottery
- Bing and Grondahl Porcelain
- Bitossi Pottery
- Blue Ridge Pottery
- Blue Willow Pottery and China
- Broadmoor Pottery
- Brush-McCoy Pottery (for McCoy see below)
- Buffalo Pottery
- Bybee Pottery
- California Pottery
- California Faience Pottery
- Camark Pottery
- Carlton Ware Pottery
- Cash Family Pottery
- Catalina Island Pottery
- Ceramics Art Studio Pottery (including Betty Harrington)
- Charlotte Rhead Pottery
- Clarice Cliff Pottery
- Cliftwood Pottery
- Clinchfield Artware Pottery
- Coors Pottery
- Cornelison Pottery
- Cowan Pottery
- Crystalline Pottery
- Dahl Jensen Porcelain
- Dedham Pottery
- DeLee Pottery
- Denver White Pottery
- Deruta Italy Ceramics and Pottery
- Dickota Pottery & Dickinson Clay Products
- Don Winton Pottery
- Door Pottery
- Dresden Porcelain and China
- Dryden Pottery
- Ecanada Pottery
- Enesco Pottery
- Ephraim Pottery
- Fat Lava Pottery (West German)
- Fiesta Ware (for Homer Laughlin see below)
- Florence Ceramics
- Florida Potteries
- Flow Blue Pottery
- Franciscan Pottery (including Gladding McBean)
- Frankoma Pottery
- Frederick Rhead Pottery
- Freeman McFarlin Pottery
- Fulper Pottery
- Garden City Pottery
- George Ohr Pottery
- Georgia Folk Pottery
- Gilmer Pottery
- Glidden Pottery
- Gonder Pottery
- Gouda Pottery
- Grindley Pottery
- Grueby Pottery
- Gzhel Pottery and Ceramics
- Haeger Pottery
- Hagen-Renaker Pottery
- Hall China Pottery
- Hampshire Pottery
- Harker Pottery
- Haviland China
- Holt Howard Pottery
- Homer Laughlin China (for Fiesta see above)
- Howard Pierce Pottery
- Hull Pottery
- Hyalyn Pottery
- Italian Pottery
- Iznik Pottery
- Josef Originals Pottery
- Kay Finch Pottery
- Kenton Hills Porcelains
- Knowles, Taylor and Knowles China
- Larkin Pottery
- Lefton China
- Limoges Porcelain
- Marblehead Pottery
- McCoy Pottery (for Brush-McCoy see above)
- Merrimac Pottery
- Meissen Porcelain
- Messer Pottery
- Metlox Pottery
- Mettlach Pottery and Ceramics
- Midwest Pottery
- Monmouth Pottery
- Moorcroft Pottery
- Morton Pottery
- Motawi Tileworks
- Muncie Pottery
- Napco Ceramics and Pottery
- Newcomb College Pottery
- Nicodemus Pottery
- Niloak Pottery
- Nippon Porcelain
- Nonconnah Pottery
- Noritake Porcelain and China
- North Dakota School of Mines Pottery
- Occupied Japan Porcelain and Pottery
- Ohr Pottery
- Overbeck Pottery
- Owens Pottery
- Pacific Pottery
- Paul Revere Pottery
- Pennsbury Pottery
- Peters and Reed Pottery
- Pewabic Pottery
- Pillin Pottery
- Pine Ridge Pottery
- Pisgah Forest Pottery
- Poole Pottery
- Portmeirion Pottery
- Pottery Craft Stoneware
- Pratt Ware Pottery
- Pueblo Pottery
- Purinton Pottery
- Quimper Pottery
- Red Wing Pottery
- Rhead Pottery
- Robinson Ransbottom Pottery
- Rockingham Pottery
- Rookwood Pottery
- Rosemeade Pottery
- Roseville Pottery
- Royal Albert China
- Royal Bayreuth Pottery
- Royal Copenhagen Porcelain
- Royal Copley Pottery
- Royal Doulton Porcelain and China
- Royal Haeger Pottery
- R.S. Prussia Porcelain
- RumRill Pottery
- Rushmore Pottery
- Ruskin Pottery
- Russel Wright Pottery
- Sascha Brastoff Pottery
- Santa Barbara Ceramic Design
- Saturday Evening Girls Pottery
- Shawnee Pottery
- Shearwater Pottery
- Shelley China and Pottery
- Sleepy Eye Pottery
- Staffordshire Pottery
- Stangl Pottery
- Susie Cooper Pottery
- Sylvac Pottery
- Teco Pottery
- Treasure Craft Pottery
- Trenton Potteries
- Twinton Pottery (aka Twin Winton)
- UHL Pottery
- University of North Dakota Pottery
- Vallona Starr Pottery
- Van Briggle Pottery
- Vernon Kilns Pottery
- Waco Pottery
- Wade Ireland Pottery
- Walley Pottery
- Warwick China and Pottery
- Watt Pottery
- Weller Pottery
- Western Stoneware
- Willow Ware Pottery
- WPA Ceramics and Pottery
- Zane Pottery Company
- Zanesville Pottery
- Zsolnay Pottery and Ceramics