Hello,

Hadn't noticed this mentioned in the posts on
mismatched ceramic sets:


Warner, Mark S.
1998	“The Best There Is of Us”: Ceramics and Status in
African American Annapolis.  In Annapolis Pasts,
edited by Paul Shackel, Paul Mullins, and Mark Warner.
 University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.


Ryan Gray
University of Chicago


--- Kate and Silas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> May I suggest an article by George Miller published
> in Maryland Historical Magazine (Vol 69 Number 2,
> Summer 1974) entitled "A Tenant Farmer's Tableware:
> Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Tabb's Purchase."
> In this article George explores a selection process
> of buying similar, but not identical edge-decorated
> ceramics and suggests an attempt at piecemeal set
> acquisition.
> 
> Silas Hurry
> HSMC
> 
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: Doug Ross <[log in to unmask]> 
> 
> > Folks, 
> > 
> > I am looking for published archaeological studies
> that examine the use of 
> > mismatched sets of ceramic vessels. I have an
> assemblage (c. 1900-1930) of 
> > English teacups and saucers that clearly do not
> match one another, and I was 
> > wondering how common that is on archaeological
> sites, and what meaning one 
> > could read into it. I am aware of Gaw's (1975)
> article on ceramics from 
> > Silcott, but was wondering what other literature
> there is out there. Thanks, 
> > 
> > Doug Ross 
> > 
> 



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