The colorful country patterns of spongeware and spatterware pottery, a traditional favorite of the public, remains enormously popular with today's many collectors of antique ceramics. This revised and expanded identification and price guide provides those collectors with an expansive pictorial cross-section of eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century spongeware and spatterware. Additionally, the detailed text offers clear insight into the history and development of these attractive, desirable wares._x000D_Over two hundred examples of spongeware and spatterware are illustrated in this book with full color photographs and complete information, including a price guide._x000D__x000D_ AUTHOR: Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Kevin McConnell currently resides in Denton, Texas, where he makes his living as an archaeologist and a freelance writer. The books he has authored include *Redware: America's Folk Art Pottery, and Roycroft Art Metal, both of which are available from Schiffer Publishing._x000D__x000D_.