Robert HUNTER
401 Main Street
Post Office Box 401
Yorktown, Virginia 23690
Telephone: 757-886-9482
Facsimile: 757-877-9068
Email: somerwell@aol.com
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Robert HUNTER 401 Main Street Post Office Box 401 Yorktown, Virginia 23690 Telephone: 757-886-9482 Facsimile: 757-877-9068 Email: somerwell@aol.com |
Robert Hunter is a specialist in English ceramics with 20 years of professional experience in historical archaeology excavating Colonial British sites throughout Virginia and North Carolina. He was the founding director of the Center for Archaeological Research at The College of William and Mary. In addition to his exposure to English ceramics as an archaeologist, Mr. Hunter served as curator of Ceramics and Glass in the Department of Collections at Colonial Williamsburg. He is a partner in the business PERIOD DESIGNS; a innovative firm specializing in the reproduction of 17th- and 18th-century decorative arts. He has acquired a number of important objects for many museums including the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the British Museum, the Chipstone Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution. He is co-author of the seminal article "English Shell-Edge Earthenwares" (The Magazine ANTIQUES with George L. Miller, March 1994) and "English Delft from Williamsburg’s Archaeological Contexts" in John C. Austin’s British Delft at Williamsburg. He has been most recently appointed Editor of the annual journal, Ceramics in America published by the Chipstone Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mr. Hunter lectures widely and participates in the New York Ceramics Fair in January each year. |
