In Middle Tennessee a few years ago we studied an early frontier "station" 
where the owner had been killed by hostile aboriginals in the 1790s.  During 
concurrent historical research we found that one of the items listed on his 
will and estate inventory was a set of "Queensware" which we assumed was 
represented by the numerous undecorated creamware sherds in the assemblage. 
Could  Queensware have been any cream (and later white) colored ware deemed 
as such by the Queen and if so was the American adoption of the term later 
in the 19th C. the same type marketing scheme early American potters used 
when their makers marks appear to imitate British marks?

dan allen
cumberland research group, inc.
and GRA; the Center for Historic Preservation @ MTSU
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ariadne Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Queensware


>
> Chris,


Is the piece you wrote published somewhere?  I would like to read it, if
possible.  I too was operating under the apparently misguided notion that
Queensware referred exclusively to cream-colored wares.

--Ariadne

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Fennell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 3:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Midwestern Farmstead Biblio
>
>
> > Mark --
> >
> > Here's a short excerpt from something I wrote a while back that
> addresses
> > some of the variant uses of the terms queensware and whiteware by
> pottery
> > manufacturers:
> >
> > The 1807 embargo deprived American markets of many imported goods,
> > including British ceramics (Myers 1980:5). The Philadelphia pottery
> > manufacturers responded with increased production and expansion of their
> > product lines to fill this unmet demand (Myers 1980:5). In addition to
> > their long-standing lines of utilitarian earthenwares and stonewares, by
> > 1813 Philadelphia pottery manufacturers were advertising extensive lines
> > of their own form of "Queensware" whiteware to replace the popular line
> of
> > tablewares produced in Staffordshire (Barber 1909:111; Ketchum 1971:120;
> > Myers 1980:6-7). This undertaking was the subject of proud report by the
> > Governor of Pennsylvania in his annual message to the state legislature
> in
> > 1809, stating that "'we have lately established in Philadelphia a
> > queensware pottery on an extensive scale'" (Barber 1909:111). Potteries
> in
> > Baltimore were producing whitewares by the 1840s, and the pottery
> > manufacturers of East Liverpool, Ohio lived up to their town's
> challenging
> > name by producing whitewares comparable to Queensware by the 1850s
> (Barber
> > 1909:196; Ketchum 1971:134, 137).
> >
> > Barber, Edwin A. 1909. The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States.
> > New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
> >
> > Ketchum, William C., Jr. 1971. The Pottery and Porcelain Collector's
> > Handbook.  New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
> >
> > Myers, Susan H. 1980. Handcraft to Industry: Philadelphia Ceramics in
> the
> > First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
> > Institution Press.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris
>