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. 23943.
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): 198203.
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. 5457.
3. For typical European Bellarmine faces, see David Gaimster, German Stoneware
12001900 (London: British Museum Press, 1997); Chris Green, John
Dwights Fulham Pottery, Excavations 197179 (London: English
Heritage, Archaeological Report 6, 1999), pp. 22022; 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. 11726.
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 LEncyclopédié
of Denis Diderot, edited by Charles C. Gillispie (New York: Dover Publications,
Inc., 1959, 1987), pls. 308, 318, 336, 418, 429, 445, 449, 458. |