DECORATED STONEWARE OF COWDEN
AND THE STONEWARE POTTERIES
OF HARRISBURG PENNSYLVANIA
1852 - 1924

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Decorated Stoneware Of Cowden, by Matthew R. Miller is a book on the antique blue decorated stoneware produced in Harrisburg Pennsylvania. More extensive than any other book ever produced on these potteries, Decorated Stoneware Of Cowden fully details the story and history of the nine Harrisburg stoneware manufacturers, moving chronologically from T. H. Willson, Willson's & Young, John Young, William Moyer, J. W. Cowden, Cowden & Wilcox, F. H. Cowden, Cowden & Son, to Cowden & Company .In addition to genealogy and history on the owners, potters, and potteries from this era, Decorated Stoneware Of Cowden is a full sized 8.5" x 11" hardbound book, 176 pages in length, and features over 400 color photographs of Harrisburg blue decorated stoneware.

This book includes photographic examples of the pottery produced by each Harrisburg maker, as well as advertisements, sale bills, maps, blue prints, owners and employees. The photographs of stoneware range from typical pieces to some of the rarest and most extravagantly decorated stoneware ever produced, and also includes a large number of pieces which have never before reached the public eye. 

The name, Cowden & Wilcox, and the stoneware produced in Harrisburg, the capital city of Pennsylvania, is among the most highly collected stoneware in the nation. Of interest to long time collectors, and beginning collectors alike, this book also includes informative sections on the history and processes involved in creating salt glazed blue decorated stoneware, the conditions of antique salt glazed stoneware, and a price guide which includes a variety of Harrisburg stoneware from recent public auctions.©2001