Now in its eleventh year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramic scholarship in the American context.Included in 2011 edition:• The Chinese Scholar Pattern: Style, Merchant Identity, and the English Imagination-Sarah Fayen Scarlett• Digging Up Salem's Golden Age: Ceramic Use among the Merchant Class-George Schwartz• Ceramic Treasures among Seventeenth-Century Trash: A 1660s Cellar Deposit-Al Luckenbach and John E. Kille• The Stoneware Years of the Thompson Potters of Morgantown, West Virginia, 1854-1890-Richard Duez and Don Horvath with Brenda Hornsby Heindl• Cap-Hole Oyster Jars: A Racial Message In The Mud; or Shipping Crassostrea Virginica-Ivor Noël Hume• Mind Mud: Ai Weiwei's Conceptual Ceramics-Garth ClarkPlus ten New Discoveries and six new book reviews