Joseph Glass (potter)
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Joseph Glass (fl. 1670[1]-1703[2] at least) was a potter, working in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, England.[3] He worked in slipware, and is one of the first potters known to have signed and dated his work.[3][4]
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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.[2][5]
Glass' work, which has been compared to that of Thomas Toft,[6] is in a number of public collections, including a posset pot (inscribed "Joseph Glass S.V. H.G.") in the British Museum,[3][7] and a cradle, dated 1703, in the J. W. L. Glaisher collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum.[2][8][9][10]
In March 2020, a jug with his signature, and the date 1701, was shown on the BBC Television programme Antiques Roadshow.[3] It was valued at £20,000 by John Sandon.[3][11]