China Collecting in America, Part 1An extensive and delightful survey of "China-Hunting" in Mew England. Chapter include: China Hunting; Trencher Treen and Pewter Bright; Early Use and Importation of China in America; Early Fictile Art in America; Earliest Pottery Wares, English Porcelain in America; Liverpool and Other Printed Ware; Oriental China; The Cosey Teapot; Punch-Bowls and Punches; George and Martha Washington's China; Presidential China; Designs Relating to Washington; Designs Relating to Franklin; Designs Relating to Lafayette; Patriotic and Political Designs; Staffordshire Wares; China Memories; China Collections. |
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Page 276 - A variety of others have been made since of different sizes; some to be set in the lids of snuff boxes and some so small as to be worn in rings; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts and prints (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon...
Page 1 - I cannot defend the order of preference, but by saying, that we have all some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering distinctly that it was an acquired one. I can call to mind the first play, and the first exhibition...
Page 258 - Sceptre and the Sword, Retired to the Shades of Private Life. A Spectacle so new and so sublime Was contemplated with the profoundest Admiration; And the Name of WASHINGTON, Adding new Lustre to Humanity, Resounded to the remotest Regions of the Earth.
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Page 1 - ... was an acquired one. I can call to mind the first play, and the first exhibition, that I was taken to; but I am not conscious of a time when china jars and saucers were introduced into my imagination. I had no repugnance then—why should I now have?— to those little, lawless, azure-tinctured grotesques, that under the notion of men and women, float about, uncircumscribed by any element, in that world before perspective—a china tea-cup.
Page 64 - ... by Captain Budden a large case and a small box. In the large case is another small box, containing some English china, viz.: melons and leaves for a desert of fruit and cream, or the like ; a bowl remarkable for the neatness of the figures, made at Bow, near this city; some coffee cups of the same; a Worcester bowl, ordinary. To show the difference of workmanship, there is something from all the china works in England; and one old true china basin mended, of an odd color.
Page 87 - The bulk of our particular manufactures are you know exported to foreign markets, for our home consumption is very trifling in comparison, to what is sent abroad ; & the principal of these markets are the Continent & Islands of North America.