Earle begins with Charles Lamb’s partiality for old china and her own adventures hunting it in farmhouses and attics. She traces the wooden trenchers and pewter that came before china, the early importation of porcelain, the first American potteries, and the English porcelains and Liverpool printed wares that filled colonial and early republican cupboards.
A chatty, knowledgeable guide by the historian of colonial domestic life, still useful to collectors. Download the free EPUB.