1. John Penman suggested that Oklahoma River Basin Survey reports mentioned Henderson importers’ marks, and further sleuthing by Christopher Lintz tracked down the Oklahoma report of a wealthy Indian burial containing, among fourteen whole pots, a blue shell-edge twiffler marked “Henderson Walton & Co./Importers/New Orleans” with Davenport anchor mark (see Mike L. Wilson, “Two Historic Burials in the Three Forks Locale,” Oklahoma Anthropological Society Bulletin 17 [1968]: 75–86), pl. i, no. 2. Information on the painted pearlware sherd with partial Henderson mark was supplied by Sara Hahn courtesy of Coastal Environments of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The sherd was recovered from Site D (22ad1019; Thurston H. G. Hahn III et al., “Natchez Bluffs—Once Upon and Down Under: Archaeological and Historical Inventory and Reporting for the Natchez Riverfront Revetment, Reach 4 of the Natchez Bluff Stability Study, and the Learned Mill Road Disposal Area, Adams County, Mississippi,” draft report submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District, by Coastal Environments, Baton Rouge, 2002). A Henderson, Walton and Co. cornflower-pattern sprig-painted saucer was found in a 2002 online report of Arkansas Technological University’s long-term work at Old Washington, Arkansas; www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/atuoldwash.html. For images of the painted pearlware sherd, printed wares, and additional Henderson importer marks, as well as further details on the Henderson partnerships, see the online version of this article at www.greatestjournal.com/community/ potterynews/12975.html.
2. Art Black and Cynthia Brandimarte, “Henderson & Gaines: New Orleans Ceramics Importers,” Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Research Notes: Historic Sites and Materials, no. 2 (Austin: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 1987): 1–3.
3. Ibid.; Leslie Stewart-Abernathy, “Queensware in a Southern Store: Perspectives on the Antebellum Ceramics Trade from a Merchant Family’s Trash in Washington, Arkansas,” six-panel poster session with paper presented at annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Reno, Nevada (1988); Terence A. Lockett and Geoffrey A. Godden, Davenport China, Earthenware and Glass, 1794–1887 (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1989).
4. Stewart-Abernathy, “Queensware in a Southern Store”; M. Jay Stottman, chapter on Feature 10 (Brick-lined Privy), draft report on archaeological work at the Commonwealth Convention Center expansion site, Louisville, Ky., by the Kentucky Archaeological Survey (n.d.), Table 3.13; Hahn et al., “Natchez BluVs”; Sandra D. Pollan et al., “Nineteenth-Century Transfer-Printed Ceramics from the Townsite of Old Velasco (41bo125), Brazoria County, Texas: An Illustrated Catalogue,” prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin (1996); Marie E. Blake and Martha D. Freeman, “Nineteenth-Century Transfer-Printed Ceramics from the Texas Coast,” prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, by Prewitt and Associates, Inc., Austin (1998).
5. The pioneering work on this company was done by Art Black and Cindy Brandimarte (see their Table I, “Henderson and Gaines”). Table I herein summarizes their work in New Orleans city directories and adds mark information from documented pieces. Further notes can be found at www.greatestjournal.com/community/potterynews/12975.html.
6. Arnold A. Kowalsky and Dorothy E. Kowalsky, Encyclopedia of Marks on American, English, and European Earthenware, Ironstone, and Stoneware, 1780–1980: Makers, Marks, and Patterns in Blue and White, Historic Blue, Flow Blue, Mulberry, Romantic Transferware, Tea Leaf, and White Ironstone (Atglen, Pa.: SchiVer, 1999), pp. 658–60.
7. Feedback from the online version of this article produced additional marks for New Orleans: John Gauche’s Sons, Haviland and Co. French porcelain cup, late nineteenth century, courtesy of Sara and Thurston Hahn; Baldwin Brower Company, documented from 1838 to 1857 but predating 1838, based on marks on painted and printed pearlwares, courtesy of Ryan Gray, Earth Search, New Orleans and Louisville, Ky.; Lewis and Wilkes, ca. 1843– 1863, courtesy of Jay Stottman, Kentucky Archaeological Survey.
8. Archaeological and antique examples with Henderson marks and Davenport or unmarked maker’s marks are listed and illustrated at www.greatestjournal.com/community/ potterynews/12975.html, which also summarizes archaeological information on Davenport anchor date marks and their possible discrepancies with archival dates. For notes on Davenport records, see Terence A. Lockett, Davenport Pottery and Porcelain, 1794–1887 (Newton Abbot, Eng.: David and Charles, 1972), p. 7.
9. George L. Miller et al., “Telling Time for Archaeologists,” Northeast Historical Archaeology 29 (2000): 1–22.
10. Black and Brandimarte, “Henderson and Gaines,” p. 3. It is not entirely clear in the original whether the word “painted” modifies teapots, sugars, and creamers or only pitchers.
11. Hahn et al., “Natchez Bluffs,” illustrated at www.greatestjournal.com/community/ potterynews/12975.html.
12. See Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Arkansas, available at their website www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/atuoldwash.html (accessed June 27, 2005). |