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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
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