Acknowledgments Many people helped with specific tasks in creating this work. These include Eleanor Gadsden, Nancy Sazama, Cate Cooney, Amy Ortiz Holmes, Jacob Esselstrom, Ryan Grover, Nancy Marshall, Frank Horlbeck, Anna Andrzejewski, Patricia Samford, Jon Prown, George Miller, and Rob Hunter. I am also grateful to Carl and Katherine Martin who had the uncanny ability to know whether to leave me alone or distract me away. All are due my thanks. 1. “The New Crockery Shop,” Eliza Cook’s Journal, vol. 1 (London: John Owen Clarke, 1849), p. 21. History of Women (Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publication Series), microfilm, reels 52–53. 2. Eliza Cook’s Journal, vol. 1, p. 36. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid., p. 21. 6. Charles Wyllis Elliott, “Unglazed Pottery,” Art Journal, 2nd series, vol. 3 (New York: D. Appleton and Comp., 1877), p. 117. 7. Head Cantharus, vol. 1, pl. fifty-seven. Anne Claude Phillippe Caylus, comte de, Recueil d’Antiquitiés egyptiennes, etrusques, grecques et romaines, Nouvelle edition (Paris: chez Desaint et Saillant, 1761). The Chipstone Foundation has recently acquired the seven-volume set owned by Josiah Wedgwood and research is beginning into the series of annotated drawings and marks. 8. Henry Glassie, Material Culture (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999), p. 222. 9. An earlier version of this kind of method can be seen in Ann Smart Martin, “Makers, Buyers, and Users: Consumerism as a Material Culture Framework,” Winterthur Portfolio 28, no. 2/3 (Autumn 1993): 141–157. 10. For Africans-Americans, see Leland Ferguson, Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650–1800 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992). For an argument supporting the continued role of indigenous Americans, see L. Daniel Mouer, Mary Ellen N. Hodges, Stephen R. Potter, Susan L. Henry Renaud, Ivor Noël Hume, Dennis J. Pogue, Martha W. McCartney, and Thomas E. Davidson, “Colonoware Pottery, Chesapeake Pipes, and ‘Uncritical Assumptions,’” in Theresa A. Singleton, “I, Too, an America”: Archaeological Studies of African-American Life (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), pp. 83–115 . Ferguson, Uncommon Ground. 11. George L. Miller, Ann Smart Martin, and Nancy S. Dickinson, “Changing Consumption Patterns: English Ceramics and the American Market, a Case Study,” in Everyday Life in the Early Republic, 1789–1820 (New York: W. W. Norton for the Winterthur Museum, 1994). 12. Charles L. Venable, Ellen P. Denker, Katherine C. Grier, Stephen G. Harrison, China and Glass in America 1880–1980: From Tabletop to TV Tray (New York: Harry N. Abrams for Dallas Museum of Art, 2000). 13. Edward Dramgoole Store Inventory, October 1, 1800, Brunswick County, Virginia. Dramgoole Family Papers, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. 14. Charles Lamb (1775–1834) “Old China,” in A Book of English Essays, edited by W. E. Williams (New York: Penguin English Library, 1980), pp. 92–100. 15. Robert Southey, Letters from England, edited by Jack Simmons (London: 1807; reprint, London: The Cresset Press, 1961), pp. 191–192. 16. John Guille Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, vol. 2 (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1899), pp. 18–19. M. H. Spielmann, Millais and His Works (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1898), pp. 115–116.