Project Gutenberg 2025-10-07 Public domain in the USA. 462 Earle, Alice Morse 1851 1911 Earle, Mary Alice Morse China collecting in America $aNew York :$bCharles Scribner's Sons, $c1892, pubdate 1906. Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "China collecting in America" by Alice Morse Earle is a historical account written in the late 19th century. It explores the passion, practice, and history of seeking old china and related tableware in the United States, especially New England, blending personal memoir with antiquarian research. The work likely appeals to collectors and readers of material culture, moving from anecdotes of “china hunting” into guidance, ethics, and the evolution of tableware from wood and pewter to Delft, English wares, and Oriental porcelain. The opening of the book recounts the author’s “midsummer madness” for hunting old china across New England, detailing the thrills, frequent disappointments, and crafty etiquette of buying from wary farm households. Vivid anecdotes include failed negotiations (a Nankin bowl used for mixing chicken-dough), misidentified “Martha Washington” plates, evasive hoarders, and the colorful stratagems of dealers—alongside a playful fantasy of collecting from a tin-peddler’s cart. The narrative weighs the ethics of the chase, from gentle persuasion to dubious ruses and even brushes with stolen goods, and sketches the social settings of auctions, schoolhouse intelligence-gathering, and unglamorous roadside meals. The next section turns to history, surveying wooden trenchers and pewter—porringers, platters, candlesticks, and communion services—their manufacture, household pride, and preservation, illustrated by a Shrewsbury homestead laden with shining pewter. The account then begins tracing early American porcelain use and importation: English misconceptions about china, Delft and stoneware appearances in colonial inventories, the silver-mounted Winthrop jug, Boston’s early 18th‑century advertisements for “chayney,” and regional contrasts showing New England’s lead. It closes this opening stretch with the culture of repairing cherished pieces and a glimpse of Franklin sending select English and Oriental wares home to Philadelphia. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/chinacollectingi1906earl/page/n7/mode/2up 20230320183536earle 1892 US en Pottery -- Collectors and collecting -- United States Porcelain -- Collectors and collecting -- United States NK Text 780921 2025-11-30T10:16:05.701156 text/html 745005 2025-10-07T00:45:09 text/html 13653408 2025-11-30T10:16:19.110067 application/epub+zip 13654251 2025-11-30T10:16:09.313122 application/epub+zip 461439 2025-11-30T10:16:07.339190 application/epub+zip 14367199 2025-11-30T10:16:25.668028 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 14322382 2025-11-30T10:16:17.366088 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 658365 2025-11-30T10:16:03.578245 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 638457 2025-10-07T00:45:09 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16260 2025-11-30T10:16:25.841036 application/rdf+xml 19855 2025-11-30T10:16:07.725156 image/jpeg 2845 2025-11-30T10:16:07.529131 image/jpeg 14444131 2025-11-30T10:16:05.999194 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia