Emily,

On California sites from circa 1860 to 1890 we rarely find matching decorated sets of table and tea ware. More typically, we find plain white improved earthenwares (white granite) from a variety of potters as a set. The more expensive version of this is porcelain with a gilt band. 

The Anthropological Studies Center Sonoma State University has a variety of reports online.

http://web.sonoma.edu/asc/publications/index.html <http://web.sonoma.edu/asc/publications/index.html>

The Cypress Freeway Replacement, and the West Approach to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge have a large sample of deposits from Oakland and San Francisco.

Michael D Meyer




> On Dec 21, 2019, at 10:14 AM, George Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> [log in to unmask] Emily Dale on sets of dishes December 20, 2019
> 
> 
> 
> Emily,
> 
> 
> 
> Here are some comments on matching dish sets.  Early on table and tea ware
> were commonly separate purchases.  For example here are the typical
> assemblages over time.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Common Table ware
> 
> Common Tea ware
> 
> 
> 
> 1790s
> 
> Undecorated Creamware
> 
> Painted teas, “China Glaze” Oriental style patterns
> 
> 
> 
> Post Napoleonic Wars, 1815 to 1830
> 
> Falling ceramic prices led to changes in consumption patterns.  Most common
> tableware was blue or green shell edge plates
> 
> Floral painted or dark blue printed teas
> 
> 
> 
> 1830s to 1860
> 
> Shell edged or printed tableware
> 
> Increasing use of printed teas, but the tea wares are often of a different
> pattern than the tableware
> 
> 
> 
> 1860s
> 
> Printed or white granite wares
> 
> In the case of white granite wares, the tea ware was often the same pattern
> as the white granite table ware
> 
> 
> 
> Post 1870s
> 
> Large sets of 100 pieces being offered that merge tea and table wares were
> being offered
> 
> Tea ware and table ware of the same pattern
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Here are some references that would be helpful for following these changes.
> 
> 
> 
> George L. Miller
> 
> 1974    A Tenant Farmer’s Tableware.  Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from
> Tabb’s Purchase.  *Maryland Historical Magazine* Vol. 69, No. 2, pages
> 197-210.
> 
> 
> 
> The tenant farmer’s ceramics can be contrasted with what wealthier
> residents of St. Mary’s County were consuming in a study of probate
> inventories by:
> 
> Lynne Herman, John O. Sands and Daniel Schecter 1975 titled “Ceramics in
> St. Mary’s County During the 1840’s: A Socio-Economic Study *The Conference
> on Historic Site Archaeology Papers *8, pages 52-93.
> 
> 
> 
> George L. Miller, Ann Smart Martin and Nancy Dickinson
> 
> 1994            Changing Consumption Patterns, English Ceramics and the
> American Market from 1770 to 1840.  *Everyday Life in the Early Republic*
> edited by Catherine E. Hutchins, Winterthur Museum.  Pages 219-248.  This
> documents the different availability in plates, teas and bowls.
> 
> 
> 
> Diana diZerega Wall
> 
> 1994    Family Dinners and Social Teas: Ceramics and Domestic Rituals.
> *Everyday
> Life in the Early Republic* edited by Catherine E. Hutchins, Winterthur
> Museum.  Pages 249-284.
> 
> 
> 
> George L. Miller and Amy C. Earls
> 
> 1984 War and Pots: The Impact of Economics and Politics on Ceramic
> Consumption Patterns. *Ceramics in America 2008* edited by Robert
> Hunter.  Pages
> 67-108.  We used ceramics listed in 101 invoices from New York importers
> and jobbers to the country trade dating from1806 to 1886 to establish
> popularity curves for the different types of plates, teas and bowls as they
> changed over this period.  This article may be available for download from
> the Chipstone Foundation web site.
> 
> 
> 
> George L. Miller
> 
> 1984    George M. Coates, Pottery Merchant of Philadelphia, 1817-1831.
> *Winterthur
> Portfolio *Vol. 19, No. 1 pages37-49.  In accounts of ceramics sold to to
> five country merchants handling thousands of ceramics, there were only two
> complete tableware sets listed.  Teas were generally sold in sets of six
> cups and six saucers.
> 
> 
> 
> I am working on a set of printed tableware by John Wedge Wood that was a
> wedding gift in 1848 to a Quaker family in southern Pennsylvania.  Thirty-eight
> vessels from that set were passed down in the family and are now in my
> possession.
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Peace,
> 
> George L. Miller
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:58 AM lara band <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> This is a really good paper, discussing household relations through an
>> excavated set of matched tablewear and other sources: Kruczek-Aaron, H.
>> Choice Flowers and Well-Ordered Tables: Struggling Over Gender in a
>> Nineteenth-Century Household. International Journal of Historical
>> Archaeology 6, 173–185 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020333103453
>> 
>> All the best
>> 
>> Lara
>> 
>> On 19/12/2019 16:21, Emily Dale wrote:
>> 
>> My students are working on a project with a lot of matching dish sets and
>> we're struggling to find other articles/resources that discuss such
>> assemblages. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!
>> Emily Dale
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