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  • Artificial Intelligence Assisted Analytical Attribution of Ceramic Art Decoration

    Evaluating AI for Identifying William Billingsley’s Works and Some of his Contemporaries

    by Howell G. M. Edwards, Hassan Ugail ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book reviews the information provided by an artificial intelligence–based methodology for the characterization of artworks and the attribution of a piece to a particular artist. Until now, such approaches have been applied mainly to oil paintings, where supporting scientific evidence from underlying layers is available through IR and X‑ray imaging, as well as chemical analysis of pigments, ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

  • Armorial Porcelain

    The Genesis

    by Rachel L. Denyer, Morgan C.T. Denyer, Howell G. M. Edwards ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book explores the genesis of armorial porcelain manufacture in Britain. While heraldic devices began appearing on Chinese porcelain from the sixteenth century onwards, armorials did not appear on British porcelain until the 1750s. It examines the development of porcelain in China and traces its introduction to Western Europe. The book delves into the market for armorial porcelains, from the ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • The Pendock Barry Porcelain Service

    A Forensic Evaluation

    by Rachel L. Denyer, Morgan C. T. Denyer, Howell G. M. Edwards ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Heraldic devices first appeared on ceramics in Western Europe from the sixteenth century onwards; however, it was not until the 1760s that British ceramic manufactories began executing commissions for services displaying heraldic devices for the gentry.This book explores the rise of the new gentry class and the market for armorial services through the case study of the Pendock Barry service. The ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Blue by Fire: A Marker of the Technical History of Glass and Ceramics

    by Howell G. M. Edwards, Philippe Colomban ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    The use of natural mineral and synthetic blue pigments in antiquity for wall paintings and illuminated manuscript historiation evolved into the most suitable blue pigments for the decoration of glazed and enamelled wares (ceramics, glass and metal) which required a stability at the high temperatures of the kilns used for glazing and firing. Historic literature is often vague regarding the blue ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Coade Stone

    A History and Analysis

    by Howell G. M. Edwards, Christopher J. Brooke ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    The history and nature of artificial stone for use in architecture is a subject still shrouded in myth and misconception. This book aims to lay bare those misconceptions and present a scientific and architectural account of these materials, and especially Coade Stone, the most successful of all, which found great favour during the Georgian period. Many examples of Coade Stone cast sculpture still ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • The Farnley Hall Service: A Unique Survivor in Nantgarw Porcelain

    by Howell G. M. Edwards ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book covers the discovery and the results of the analytical study of the composition of the Farnley Hall service, involving both the embossed moulding and the decorative compositions. The discovery of this missing porcelain service, which was manufactured 200 years ago, is a modern detective story in the preservation of cultural heritage, whilst its physical analysis has identified some new ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Raman Spectroscopy in Cultural Heritage Preservation

    by Howell G. M. Edwards, Peter Vandenabeele, Philippe Colomban ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book addresses the application of Raman spectroscopic techniques to a range of diverse problems which arise in the study, conservation and restoration of artefacts and sites closely related to our cultural heritage as well as in authentication. These themes are naturally wider than what at first might be considered as artworks and archaeological artefacts and the topics include pigments, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order

    When Bad Behaviour Pays

    by Dr Edward Howell ...
    For a state that has gained a global reputation as a violator of international norms, not least through its unwavering pursuit of nuclear weapons, North Korea's determination to become a nuclear-armed state is puzzling. If nuclear weapons beget security, insecurity, and other costs for the state, how might we understand this pursuit, and the delinquent behaviour that has arisen from it? In North ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Nantgarw and Swansea Porcelains

    An Analytical Perspective

    by Howell G.M. Edwards ...
    This book gives a detailed account of the holistic research carried out on the analytical data obtained historically on the products of the Nantgarw and Swansea porcelain manufactories which existed for a few years only during the second decade of the 19th Century. A background to the establishment of the two factories, which are linked through the persons of the enigmatic William Billingsley and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Welsh Armorial Porcelain

    Nantgarw and Swansea Crested China

    by Howell G. M. Edwards ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Armorial porcelains comprised the output of most European ceramics factories in the 18th and 19th Centuries in response to the large quantity of armorial porcelain services that were being imported from China bearing the coats of arms and crests of aristocratic families. Whereas these armorial services have been identified and covered for most porcelain manufactories the information relevant to ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Porcelain to Silica Bricks

    The Extreme Ceramics of William Weston Young (1776-1847)

    by Howell G.M. Edwards ...
    The title of this book describes the two extremes of ceramic invention from aesthetically beautiful and decorative works of art that graced the tables of the aristocracy to the functional silica brick that lined the smelting furnaces of industrialised nations in the 19th century designed to produce iron, copper and glass. Both of these ceramics are linked to one man, William Weston Young (1776 ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Porcelain Analysis and Its Role in the Forensic Attribution of Ceramic Specimens

    by Howell G. M. Edwards ...
    Series series Cultural Heritage Science
    The material for this book arose from the author’s research into porcelains over many years, as a collector in appreciation of their artistic beauty , as an analytical chemist in the scientific interrogation of their body paste, enamel pigments and glaze compositions, and as a ceramic historian in the assessment of their manufactory foundations and their correlation with available documentation ... Read more

    $170.09 USD