Description:

This is the fourth book devoted to understanding and appreciating Italian pottery and porcelain. Unlike most collecting guides, it offers some amazing insights for those who collect, buy and sell ceramics. The book includes actual color photos of the marks, signatures and logos used by the factories and artists of Campania. As a tool for identification, this approach is invaluable for the collector. The book contains numerous full-color photographs of examples from each factory, studio and artist discussed in the book so that the reader may become acquainted with the styles and decorative motifs that become the hallmark of each of them. Its pages offer current price ranges reflected by such auction sites as ebay. Most surprising of all, is the honesty with which this book has been written. It debunks the myths perpetuated by previous authors, the factories themselves, auction houses and internet sellers.