INDEX
Reading edition
Acrelius, Parson, 217
Adams, President, china of, 251, 301
Alchymy spoons, 43
Annely, Edward, 80
Anti-slavery plate, 333
Apotheosis of Washington, pitcher, 265
Arnold, Governor Benedict, 45
Auction, country, in New England, 33
“Baby,” Milliner’s, 58
Bache, Mrs., 65
Bainbridge portrait on mug, 310
Baltimore Advertiser, announcement in, of sale of china, 235
Baltimore plate, 334
Baltimore and Ohio plates, 334
Barlow, S. L. M., sale of china of, 176
Bat-printing, 156
Beach ware, 26
Bennington ware, 97
Binney & Ronaldson, 93
Bonaparte, Lucien, cup and saucer of, 29
Bonaparte mugs, 152
Bonnin, Gousse, 89
Boston plates, 337
Bostonian Society, the, 305, 311, 411
Bow china, 54, 119, 120, 122
Bowen, Samuel, 86
Bradford, Governor, china of, 45
Bristol porcelain, 123; teapot, 208
Broseley blue dragon pieces, 131
Buchanan, President, china of, 253
Bugbee, Thomas, 83
Burlington, old pottery at, 79
Burnet, Governor, 60
Cadogan teapot, 204
Calumet, the, 75; of the Cherokees, 76
Cambridge plates, 321
Canton china, blue, 183; sale of, direct from the vessel, 186
Castleford pottery, 117
Centennial china, 343
Champion, Richard, 85, 89, 123, 280
China collector, a professional, 13; a Yankee, 18
China in America, earliest mentions of, 56; advertisements of, in the early Boston papers, 66; old American, 70; inexhaustible materials for manufacture of, in America, 90; with American scenes, etc., 137
China steps, 418
Chinese ewer, 190
Cincinnati punch-bowl, 223; of General Washington, 230 et seq., 239
City Hall pitcher, 360
Clews, Mr. James, 327
Congressional punch-bowl, 216
Cookworthy, William, 84
Copper-lustre pitcher, 387
Crouch-ware, 109
Crown Derby plate, 380
Danvers pottery, song of, 78
Davis, Mrs. James M., Bristol porcelain urn of, 124
426Decatur portrait, 310
Deerfield Memorial Hall, 412
Delft ware, early, 53; early sale of, 57; in New York, 102; on Long Island, 103; price of, 103; tea-caddies, 104; apothecary jars of, 105, 382; in the Trumbull-Prime collection, 106; tiles, 106, 158
Derby, Elias Haskett, 180
De Witt Clinton, portrait of, 313
Dextra, Zachary, 104
Drinks, colonial American, 217
Dwight, John, 197
East India Marine Company’s Museum, 409
Elder Brewster teapot, 202
Erie Canal plates, 345
Essex Institute, the, 313, 411
Faneuil, Andrew, 57
Faneuil, Peter, 60
Farmer pitchers, 154
Franklin, Benjamin, sends china to his wife, 64, 91, 157
Franklin pottery, list of, 274 et seq.
Franklin, William, medallion, 302
Frog mugs, 144
Fulham jugs, 107
Funeral-punches, 211
“Guglet,” 237
Ginger-jars of Canton china, 188
Glazing, Indian method of, 72
Glider, to, 214
Goat cream jugs, 120
Grant, General, china of, 254
Gray, Billy, 180
Haig, Thomas, 93
Hall’s, R., wares, 330
Hamilton, Mrs. Alexander, china of, 243
Hancock, John, portrait, 304
427Hanover, First Church of, pewter service of, 45
Harrison pitcher, 314
Hartington house, the, 396
Hayes, President, china of, 255
Henrietta Maria, Queen, recipe book of, 212
Hews, A. H., & Co., 81
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, collection, 411
Hodges, Dr. Caspar Wister, 280
Hound-handled pitcher, 99
Holder for hanging china, 422
Hull pitchers, 143
Hull portrait, 310
Huntington collection, 160; Franklin pottery in, 287
Hylton pottery, 215
Indian bowls, 39
Indiana Pottery Co., 98
Inscriptions on pitchers, 143
Jackfield teapots, 208
Jackson, President, china of, 252
Japanese teapots, 205
Jefferson, Thomas, Wedgwood cameos of, 115; hospitality of, 249; china of, 250; portraits, 303
Jones, Cadwallader, vases given to, by Lafayette, 174
Johnson. Dr., teapot of, 198
Jug, hot water, of pewter, 50
Keen, Joseph, 93
Lafayette, 241
Lafayette pottery, 288; list of, 289
Lafayette Landing platter, 294
Lamb, Charles, 1, 378
Lawrence portrait, 310
Lay, Benjamin, 63
Lefferts, John, 103
Lincoln, President, china of, 253
428Liverpool ware, 135
Liverpool pitchers, 162
Lowestoft ware, 165; vase, 174; value of, 175; in New England seaport towns, 179; in the south, 194; of John Hancock, 195; teapot, 208
Lowestoft town, 175
Lustre sets, 132
Lyman & Fenton, 96
Lyon, Dr. Irving, 112
Lyon, Miss Henrietta D., 129, 254
Lyon, Governor, sale of china of, 175, 178, 203
Macdonough’s victory plate, 351
Macdonough portrait, 312
Madison, china of, 251
“Map” pitcher, 268
Mayer, Thomas, 324
Metropolitan Museum, 160, 173, 245, 257, 270, 271, 277, 279, 283, 284, 286, 296, 297
Millennium plate, 24 353
Milliners, Boston, sell “chayney,” 58
Miranda, General, 231
Mirror-knobs, 159
Monroe, President, china of, 252
Montgomery pitcher, 304
Morris, George Anthony, 90
Morristown, pewter utensils in the Washington House at, 49
Morse collection, 205
Mottoes on teapots, 207
Mount Vernon plates, 353
Museum of Practical Geology, 110, 112, 122, 140, 154, 168
Nahant plate, 354
Naval pitchers, 141, 309
Neptune, the, voyage of, 181
Newbery’s “Dives Pragmaticus,” 38
New Jersey, early china not plentiful in, 62
429New York plates 356
Niederweiler china of Washington, 244
“Noggins,” wooden, 39
Norton, John and William, 96
Osborne, William, 77
“Packing Penny,” the, 57
Pain’s Hill plates, 330
Park Theatre plate, 361
Patch-boxes, 161
Pepys’ tea-drinking, 199
Perry pitchers, 142
Perry portraits, 309
Persian vase, 192
Peters, Miss, 94
Pewter plates and platters, 47
Pewterers, English, 41
Philadelphia, colonial drinks of, 216
Philadelphia, early china in, 63; plates, 363
Philadelphia Library plate, 319
Pierce, President, china of, 252
Pike portrait, 311
Pilgrim plate, 366
Pitcher, historical, of the war of 1812, 299
Pitcher portrait of Washington, 260
Pitchers, patriotic, etc., list of, 301 et seq.
Plymouth coffee-pot, 122
Poore, Ben Perley, collection of pewter of, 49
Porcelain ware, early in America, 52
Porringers, pewter, 44
Posset-pot, the, 212
Posnets, 44
“Posy-holders,” 191
Pottery of the North American Indians, 70; in burial mounds, 73; in Louisiana, 74; of the Iroquois, 75
Preble, portrait of, 311
Prentiss, A. M., presentation pitcher of, 158
430Presidential china, auction sales of, 255
Pride, John, 77
Province House pitcher, 65
Punch, 213; varieties of, 217 et seq.; bare-legged, 218
Punch-bowl, the, 210; of lustre ware, 215; of Liverpool Delft, 215; Henry Weatherbourne’s, 219; of Washington, 221 et seq.; of the good old times, 226
Puzzle jugs, 145
Quilted china plates, 59
Randolph, Edmund, punch-bowl of, 219
Reed, Joseph, 77
Remmey, 80
Richards, Horace Jones, 300
Richmond, A. G., his collection of Indian pottery, 75
Ridgway, J. & W., china, 318, 328
Rose, Thomas, 172
Sadler, John, 155
Sadler’s ware, 137
Sailor pitchers, 148
Salt-glazed ware, 108
“Savealls,” 43
Sewall, Judge, 200
Seixas, David G., 93
Shrewsbury, old house in, 46
“Slaw bank,” a, 46
Smith, James R., 258
“Sneaker,” 237
Sack-posset, recipe for, 212
“Sourings,” 225
South Amboy, 80
Staffordshire crockery, 316; marks on, 324
Standish, Miles, 45
Steamboat plate, 350
Stienwerck, Cornelius, 61
Syntax, Dr., designs on china, 321
431Tea, in Boston, 200; price of, 201; drinking of, 199
Tea-sets, Staffordshire, not uniform. 317
Teapot friezes, 206
Teapots, mottoes on, 207; Lowestoft, 208
Temperance plate, 371
Thomas, Gabriel, 79
Timberlake, Lieutenant, 72, 76
“Tobys,” 323
Toddy strainer, 189
Transfer-printing, 155
Trenchers, wooden, 40
Trumbull-Prime collection, 96, 99, 123, 178, 261, 268, 279, 291, 304, 413
Truxton, Commodore, 142
Tucker, William Ellis, 94
Van Braam, Mr., china given by, to Martha Washington, 233, 242
Voiders, china, 69
Wales, George M., 145
Ward, J., poem of, on the Potter’s art, 42
Warren pitcher, 304
Washington, George, china, 177, 229; value of, 248; letter of, to Colonel Tilghman, 234; portraits of, on china, 257, 265
Washington, Martha, plate, 8; china, 240
Washington pitchers, 138
Washington Association, 174, 203, 216, 223, 243
Washington pottery, list of, 262
Washington toddy-jugs, 261
Washington, D. C., plates, 374
Wedgwood, Josiah, his alarm at the progress of china manufacture in America, 87
Wedgwood, Thomas, pewter plates of, 42
432Wedgwood ware, in America, 114, 116; teapots, 209
Welsteed, William, 57
Willow-pattern ware, 130
Winthrop jug, 54
Worcester ware in “Japan taste,” 29; porcelain, old, in America, 133
Yendell, S., presentation pitcher of 155
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.