Rockingham Ware in American Culture, 1830-1930: Reading Historical Artifacts

Winner of the Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Award (2006)

Rockingham ware was an inexpensive brown-glazed ceramic that was ubiquitous in America from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century. Popular as an antique today, it is regularly sold at venues ranging from flea markets to antique shows. Despite its prevalence in American life for nearly a century and its continued presence as a collector’s item, little has been written on this subject of vast…