. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 13.—^Hand-painted Staffordshire creamware teacup excavated at the site of a probable 18th-century and early igth-century china shop in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Decoration consists of a brown band above a vine border with green leaves and blue berries over orange bellflowers. The spiral fluting on the body and the slight scalloping on the edge of this cup are almost identical with that on the cup held by Mrs. Calmes in figure 15. {USNMsgyiyy-B; Smithsonian photo 4^141-C.) the Orient. Porcelain for the American market was made in a w
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 13.—^Hand-painted Staffordshire creamware teacup excavated at the site of a probable 18th-century and early igth-century china shop in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Decoration consists of a brown band above a vine border with green leaves and blue berries over orange bellflowers. The spiral fluting on the body and the slight scalloping on the edge of this cup are almost identical with that on the cup held by Mrs. Calmes in figure 15. {USNMsgyiyy-B; Smithsonian photo 4^141-C.) the Orient. Porcelain for the American market was made in a wide variety of forms, as well as in complete dinner and tea sets, and was often decorated to special order. Handpainted monograms, insignia of various kinds, and patriotic motifs were especially popular. A tea set decorated in this way was sent to Dr. David Townsend of Boston, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, by a fellow member of the Society, Maj. Samuel Shaw, American consul at Canton. In a a letter to Townsend from Canton, China, dated De- cember 20, 1790, Shaw wrote: .Accept, m\- dear friend, as a mark of my esteem and affec- tion, a tea set of porcelain, ornamented with the Cincinnati and your cypher. I hope shortly after its arrival to be with you, and in company with your amiable partner, see whether a little good tea iinproves or loses any part of its flavor in passing from one hemisphere to the other. Appended to the letter was the following inventory,^' which provides us with a list of the pieces deemed essential for a fashionably set tea table: 2 tea pots & stands .Sugar bowl & do Milk ewer Bowl & dish 6 breakfast cups & saucers 12 afternoon do Porcelain, however, had long been a part of China- trade cargos to Europe and from there to America. The early shipments of tea had included such appro- priate vessels for the storage, brewing, and drinking of the herb as tea jars, teapots, and teacups. The latter were small porcelain bowls without
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