Partial tea service Object.

Format:

Image

Contributor:

Nantucket Historical Association, owner.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Bowls (Tableware).

Eagles.

Enamel and enameling.

Exports.

Nationalism.

Porcelain.

Tea.

Teapots.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Production:

[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], [approximately 1800]

Summary:

Porcelain tea service decorated with overglaze sepia and red, with gilding. This item reflects the nationalistic preferences typical of many postrevolutionary American traders in China. Porcelain decorated with the American eagle in various forms constituted a large percentage of the export porcelain imported to America.

Notes:

Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from 'From Brant Point to the Boca Tigris: Nantucket and the China Trade' by Michael A Jehle, Nantucket Historical Association, 1994.

Title from publisher's website.