Joseph Glass
Potter, from Hanley, England, fl. 1670-1703 at least
About Joseph Glass
Born 1650. Joseph Glass was an English potter.
Joseph Glass (fl. 1670 -1703 at least) was a potter, working in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, England. He worked in slipware, and is one of the first potters known to have signed and dated his work.
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.
Glass' work, which has been compared to that of Thomas Toft, is in a number of public collections, including a posset pot (inscribed "") in the British Museum, and a cradle, dated 1703, in the J. W. L. Glaisher collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
In March 2020, a jug with his signature, and the date 1701, was shown on the BBC Television programme Antiques Roadshow.
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Who was Joseph Glass?
potter, from Hanley, England, fl. 1670-1703 at least
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Joseph Glass was born in 1650.
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Joseph Glass was a potter.
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Joseph Glass was English.
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