China collecting in America

PAGE WEDGWOOD PIECES, 1 THE PLATE WE HOPED TO FIND AND THE PLATE WE FOUND, 9 MILLENNIUM PLATE, 24 “BEACH WARE,” 27 OLD WORCESTER IN “JAPAN TASTE,” 29 “THE PORRINGERS THAT IN A R...

But do not make too aggressively prominent the money part of the transaction. Be courteous and careful even to extremes in addressing your country people for purposes of china p...

At that time, though vessels and their cargoes were insured, the underwriters frequently did not make their appearance down the coast at the scene of the wreck for many days and...

Salt-cellars and spoons were of pewter, while extremely elegant people had spoons of alchymy, or occonny, alcaney, alcamy, occomy, ackamy, and accamy, as I have seen it spelt, a...

There are far more frequent mentions and advertisements of china in old New England newspapers than in other American papers of the same years. The southern publications of colo...

Another form of Indian pottery must not be forgotten, for the significance of the pipe in the early history of our country cannot be over-rated. The calumet was a moral, religio...

This china venture failed, the real estate of the company was sold, and the proprietors returned to England asking public attention and charity for their poor workmen. Thus forl...

There have been found in New England, in numbers which seem rather surprising when we consider their age, ale-jugs of gray and blue stone-ware which are universally known as Ful...

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Another agreeable old English practical joke is in the shape of puzzle jugs, specimens of which exist in England, but have been rarely found in America. They were made in Liverp...

Sometimes, as with the mirror-knobs, a little painting of shepherds and shepherdesses is set in the lid, and, with the jewelled and enamelled border, form a trifle dainty enough...

As an indication of the vast amount of Lowestoft wares to be found in America, let me state that in the Governor Lyon sale there were forty-nine lots labelled Lowestoft, and man...

The china called Lowestoft was, without doubt, the kind most desired and most fashionable in early Federal times throughout both North and South. Such was the dinner service of...

What tales of colonial and continental times an old American punch-bowl could tell if it only could and would repeat half that it has heard; what gay drinking-songs, what stirri...

Indeed, I doubt we ever would have had punch, for in the gustatory and potatory laws of cause and effect, I know the punch-bowl evoked or generated punch instead of being made t...

Another white and gold set of Canton china still has existing pieces to show its character. This was probably a dessert-service. A berry-dish and two dessert-plates were sold in...

Some very interesting ceramic portraits of Washington were made in China, early in this century, on four porcelain toddy-jugs, by order of Mr. B. C. Willcocks, of Philadelphia....

There are in the Huntington Collection several specimens of these Nini medallions, that collection containing in all eleven medallions of Franklin, many of which being unmarked...

Pieces bearing this print are perhaps more eagerly sought after by collectors, patriots, and historical students than are those bearing any other design. The prints are all in d...

A portrait of Lawrence in copper-lustre on cream-ware pitcher, with motto, “Don’t surrender the ship.” His dying words, “Don’t give up the ship,” have become a national watchwor...

A circular stamp, impressed, of a crown, surrounded by words “A. Stevenson, Warranted Staffordshire.” This stamp appears with a mark printed in blue of an eagle holding a tablet...

Print in rich dark blue of a mountain-scene with cliffs, peaks, and pines, and a solitary figure. A confused shell border. Mark on the back, of eagle with E Pluribus Unum, and a...

Same view of City Hall as No. 212, but the park in the foreground is intersected with paths and the trees are different. The border is of scrolls, roses, and eagles, shown on pa...

What fancies we weave, what dreams we dream over a piece of homely old china! Every cup, every jar in our china ingatherings, has the charm of fantasy, visions of past life and...

Tears of disappointment fairly sprang to our eyes; but the contrast, the revulsion of feeling, the sense of the ludicrous, was so keen, that we gave way to hysterical laughter;...

In due time the table was scraped, cleaned, and polished, and with its cheerful mottled golden color and shining brass handles, was most thoroughly attractive and satisfying. Th...

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