Thank you, everyone, for all of the wonderful responses about this
pearlware pattern.  We have a whole new perspective on these pieces now.
What a wonderful resource Histarch is!

Thanks again!

Jessica Costello
Museum Specialist/Archeology
Northeast Museum Services Center
(617) 242-5613, ext. 226


                                                                           
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Jessica,From Charleston, we have two sites that have yielded miniature, or
toy, tea cup and saucer, with brown line around the rim and brown asterisks
throughout the body.  One was excavated from a privy by Elaine Herold in
1979, which she dated 1795-1815.  I have two shell-edged fragments with
asterisks (all overglaze enamel) from a privy feature dated c. 1810.  A
final example from the Heyward Washington privy features overglazed brown
shell edging, plus a flower and vine, from a context dated 1810-1820 by
Elaine Herold.  I think I have another from our Lower Market/City Wall
project, but I haven't located it yet.  Latest context on that site is
1810ish.  All of these dates agree well with Rob's dates below.Martha
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This type of decoration is fairly common throughout the mid-Atlantic and is
restricted to teawares.  I usually associate this decorative scheme with
the 1805-1810 period.