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2026 TCC Commemorative Issue: Celebrating the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources
Foreword by Patricia Halfpenny
About the Database
A Brief History of the Database by Loren Zeller
Design and Research Philosophy by Adrienne Boggs & Loren Zeller
The Content Creators
The People Behind the Database by Len Kling
The Database from the Inside Out: What Pattern Editors Have Discovered by David Hoexter
How the Database Is Used
Who Uses the Database? by Loren Zeller
A Database at Work: Connecting People, Objects, and Knowledge by Leslie Lambour Bouterie
The Database in Scholarship by Dina Zuger
The Future
Looking Ahead: Artificial Intelligence and the Database by Jonathan Lahijani
Preserving the Legacy by Scott Hanson
Becoming A Steward of the Database by Marcia Zech
Recent Bulletins
26 TCC XXVII No 1
Connecting Vicariously Through My Transferware by A. Ian Gillespie
“The Resurrection” Pattern from the Cambrian Pottery in Wales by Jaap Otte
Enoch Wood’s Hair Salon by Dr. Richard Halliday
My Favorite Pattern #2 (Hindu Goddess Kali) by David Hoexter
Crocodile and the Peculiar House with the White Horses by Dr. Jewell Lorenz Dunn
Weston Pottery Mark Clarification and Timeline by Dr. Jewell Lorenz Dunn
The Transferware Engraver: Preserving the skills of copper plate engraving within the ceramic industry, by Dr Richard Halliday A book review by Len Kling
The Architecturally Used Ceramics at the Mausoleum of Sunan Gunung Jati, Indonesia by Jaap Otte
One Thing Can Lead to Another by Sue Wagstaff
Cyprus and Beyond on Transferware by Francis J. Emery by Anna Reeve
New Discoveries: Walsh Tankard with Bamboo Handle by Dr. Jewell Lorenz Dunn
What I Won’t Part With – Pulteney Bridge, Bath by Sue Wagstaff
Interview with TCC Member Barbara McCauley by Dr. Loren Zeller
25 TCC XXVI No 2
Paul Scott’s Sampler Jug #10, Shelburne & Sugar by Kory W. Rogers
A Surprise from John Hall & Sons by Michael Sack
The Interminable Search for a Transferware Pattern Source by David Hoexter
George Weston, Potter of Lane End, an Unrecorded Mark by Dr. Jewell Lorenz Dunn
Two Vases and Four Exceptionally Unusual Handles by Dina Zuger
What’s in a Mark? by Dr. Richard Halliday
Ceramic Artifacts from San Diego Presidio’s Chapel Assemblage by Susan D. Walter
2025 TCC Spring Conference Report by Scott Hanson
My Favorite Pattern (Wedgwood Bowl) by David Hoexter
Interview with TCC Member: Maryanne Leckie by Dr. Loren Zeller
25 TCC XXVI No 1
A Foley Potteries Pattern for the Persian Market by Jaap Otte
Medieval Chinoiserie? by Dr Richard Halliday
Hylands Essex Drainer Circa 1820’s by Mel Blachford
Tracing Staffordshire Potters by Ian Harvey
A Tiny Shard, a Little Boy, and a Big Mystery by Scott Hanson
The value of ‘Digging Deeper’ by Merilyn Hoysted
“Napirima” Polychrome (Pratt) Pot Lids: The Pattern and the Genre by David Hoexter
Possibly Shorthose? by Dr. Jewell Lorenz Dunn
USE and MAKER UNKNOWN by Frank Davenport
View from Gowanus Heights Brooklyn by Len Kling
Interview with TCC Member: Leslie Lambour Bouterie
24 TCC XXV No. 2
Fifty Years Later: Revisiting “James and Ralph Clews,” by Frank Stefano, Jr. by David Hoexter and Dan Sousa
“Backwards” Patterns II by Len Kling
Durham Ox Sources and other Gate-Crashing Bovines by Dr. Richard Halliday
Back Together Again – An Overview of the Philadelphia, PA 2024 Annual Meeting by Juliana Falk
Mugs for More than Cider by Ian Harvey
“The Brick House Family” of Pearlware Pieces by Dr. Jewell Lorenz Dunn
An Exceptionally Unusual Leaf Border by David Hoexter
Ugly or New Discovery? by Richard Crouch
Interview with TCC Member: Heather Cline
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