Nigel Wood Ceramics

Honorary research associate at the research laboratory for archaeology and the history of art oxford university.

Nigel wood ceramics. And visiting tutor at the royal college of art london. Nigel wood rlaha ox ac uk nigel wood trained at traditional country potteries in reading and farnham in the late 1960s before joining the ceramics course at the west surrey college of art and design in 1969. About the author 2007 nigel wood is a well known potter and a fellow of the craft potters association. Nigel wood the microstructures of porcelain and stoneware bodies from north and south china spanning the period from the tang to the ming dynasty 7th 17th centuries ad were examined in polished.

He has long been interested in far eastern ceramics and has collaborated on scientific. Nigel wood states pp120 121 that the blue colour of jun glazes are due to liquid liquid phase separation in the solidified glaze giving droplets that are about one sixth of the wavelength of light and thus are good at scattering blue wavelengths. Professor nigel wood phd has been an active researcher into the history and technology of ceramics since the late 1970s specialising in far eastern wares. A year after leaving farnham in 1972 nigel established the meon pottery at west meon in hampshire with three former farnham students.

Now retired from teaching nigel wood was professor of ceramics at the university of westminster harrow. This edition includes a new chapter by glaze expert nigel wood. First published in 1987 this book is considered a classic by ceramicists. In a well documented text beautifully illustrated by both color and black and white photographs wood describes chinese ceramic development from the bronze age through tang and song dynasty monochrome stoneware glazes to the fine porcelains of southern china.

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