1. Richard W. Hunter, “Eighteenth-Century Stoneware Kiln of William Richards Found on the Lamberton Waterfront, Trenton, New Jersey,” in Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2001), pp. 239–43.
2. A single example of applied face decoration was identified among the wares produced by the mid-eighteenth-century Philadelphia stoneware potter Anthony Duché, but the specimen in question was fashioned in green-glazed earthenware (Robert Giannini, personal communication). See also Robert L. Giannini III, “Anthony Duché, Sr., Potter and Merchant of Philadelphia,” Antiques 119, no. 2 (January 1981): 198–203. Another applied face may be noted on a red earthenware garden planter found at Green Spring plantation in James City County, Virginia; see Audrey Noël Hume, Archaeology and the Colonial Gardener, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation No. 7 (Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1974), pp. 54–57.
3. For typical European Bellarmine faces, see David Gaimster, German Stoneware 1200–1900 (London: British Museum Press, 1997); Chris Green, John Dwight’s Fulham Pottery, Excavations 1971–79 (London: English Heritage, Archaeological Report 6, 1999), pp. 220–22; Ivor Noël Hume, If These Pots Could Talk: Collecting 2,000 Years of British Household Pottery (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2001), pp. 117–26.
4. William Richards was appointed ships’ husband for the Pennsylvania Navy in May of 1776; see Naval Documents of the American Revolution, 8 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1996), 5: 192.
5. For example, Engravings by Hogarth, edited by Sean Shesgreen (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1973), pls. 10, 13, 23, 45; A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: 485 Plates Selected from L’Encyclopédié of Denis Diderot, edited by Charles C. Gillispie (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1959, 1987), pls. 308, 318, 336, 418, 429, 445, 449, 458.