John M. Chenoweth’s quest for Quaker sites is an interesting one.

Josiah Wedgwood’s correspondence to his partner Thomas Bentley mentions

that the Quakers liked his Queensware, most likely because it fit into the

model of plainness.  That can be found in The Selected Letters of Josiah

Wedgwood edited by Ann Finer and George Savage, 1965 published by Cory,

Adams and Mackay, London.  Sorry I do not have the exact reference with me.

The issue of plainness over time would be an interesting thread to follow

on Quaker sites.



      In 1980 I had a NEH/Winterthur Fellowship to study the account book

of George M. Coates was a Quaker earthenware merchant in Philadelphia from

1817 to 1831.  One his account books is held in the Downs Collection of

Winterthur Museum and Library in Delaware.  Most of the customers of Quaker

Coates were merchants located in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and many of

them were also Quakers.  My article “George M. Coates, Pottery Merchant of

Philadelphia, 1817-1831” was published in Winterthur Portfolio Volume 19

Number 1, Spring 1984.  That volume has four other papers from a conference

on Marketing Ceramics that I organized in 1980.   These papers are all

based on merchants and potter’s records.



Peace,

George L. Miller

URS Corporation

437 High Street

Burlington, New Jersey 08016





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