Friday, July 4, 2014

Ceramics and 18th century Advertising

 Advertisements are a great clue to the wares being imported and used in Charleston during the mid century:

 
JUST IMPORTED in the Lamb, Capt. Price, from Bristol,
...yellow ware in crates
SAMUEL CARNE
The South Carolina Gazette, Charleston, 3 to 7 May, 1754.
 
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CROFT & DART
Have just imported, in the Joseph, Capt. Seager, from Bristol and will sell cheap
...shallow and soup white stone mosaic plates and dishes - fruit baskets - green mellons and leaves - neat stone faces and horns for flowers - blue and white water juggs...
South Carolina Gazette, Charleston, 29 Aug 1763,3-2.

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Imported in the Friendship Captain Ball, from London and to be sold by
Hetherington and Hynock at their store upon the Bay-
”china and china images”
South Carolina Gazette, Charleston, 27 Aug 1763, 2-1.

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FIFTY Crates of YELLOW WARE to be sold cheap,
by the subscriber, at his store in Elliot Street
Dec. 1st, 1764              John Vaux
South Carolina Gazette, Charleston, 10 Dec 1764,Suppl. 2-3.
 
SAMUEL WISE
Has just imported in the Baltick Merchant, Capt. Clarkson,
from BRISTOL,
...delph, white stone, and blue and white stone chamberpots, white stone plates, dishes, bowls, and tureens, pine apple, collyflower and tortoise shell tea pots, coffee pots,
milk pots, sugar dishes, flower horns, and pickle leaves, flower pots, milk pans,
crates of earthenware, stone jugs.....
South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, Charleston, 21 Jan 1766, 1-1.
 
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Imported in the Brigantine Polly, Thomas Dean, Master, from SALEM,
and to be sold on Col. Beale’s Wharf, GOOD old Barbados Rum and Sugar, New England Rum, Molasses, Iron Pots of sundry sorts, Wood Axes, half Bushels, Chairs,
Water Buckets, Sugar Boxes, Desks and Tables, Onions in Bunches, Potatoes,
Cyder, Salt Fish, Earthen and Tin Ware,
South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, Charleston, 21 Jan 1766, 3-2.
  
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Just imported in the ship LIBERTY, ROBERT LIVINGSTON,
Master, from LEVERPOOL [sic]
ABOUT Three Thousand Bushels of fine Stove dried
Salt--Coals--Empty Bottles--Bottles Beer--A few Crates  of
Yellow Ware, black ware, and Porto-Bello Ware,
Cheshire and double Gloucester Cheese--Potatoes, &c.
The above goods will be sold remarkably low by the
Quantity or Package, by NOWELL & LORD
South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, Charleston, 28 Jan 1766, 2-2.
 
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JAMES McCALL
Has just imported in the ship LLOYD, Capt. POCOCK,
 from BRISTOL:
A VERY VALUABLE and COMPLEAT CARGO OF GOODS:
...[textiles, foods, hardware, and]...large red hearth tiles, red unglazed China tea and coffee pots; brown bowls, compleat sets of pencil work;...
South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal ,Charleston, 18 Aug 1767, 3-1.
 
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TO BE SOLD...a CONSIGNMENT,
A LARGE QUANTITY of blue and white CHINA DISHES ANDPLATES, ENAMELED PLATES, blue and white ENAMELED, and burnt in Setts TEACHINA, blue and white and ENAMELED Pint and Half Pint BOWLS,
with sundry other CHINA WARE
Oats and Russell
South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, Charleston, 25 Oct 1768, 3-1.
 
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WILLIAM GLEN, AND SON
Have imported...from London...AMONGST WHICH ARE
An assortment of GLASS WARE, CRATES OF STONE AND
CLOUDY WARE, STONE JUGS.....
South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, Charleston, 17 Mar 1772, 3-2.
               
 

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