1. Thomas N. Layton, The Voyage of the “Frolic”: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997).
2. Invoices and itemized accounts of the auction of the Eveline’s cargo in San Francisco are transcribed and combined in Appendix A. The Frolic’s bill of lading is given in Appendix C.
3. Extensive documentation of an 1822 shipwreck cargo for the Chinese community on Java with numerous examples of this ware can be found in Nagel Auctions, Tek Sing Treasures (Stuttgart: Nagel Auctions, 2000). Coarse porcelain is illustrated and noted in Christiaan J. A. Jörg, The Geldermalsen: History and Porcelain (Groningen, Netherlands: Kemper, 1986), p. 95, figs. 88, 89. Seventeenth-century provincial wares without the interior ring from the Hatcher junk shipwreck are discussed and pictured in Colin Sheaf and Richard Kilburn, The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes: The Complete Record (Oxford, Eng.: Phaidon and Christie’s, 1988), p. 76. Porcelaneous stoneware from a Sacramento archaeological site is defined as crude gray granular fabric that is not translucent in Mary and Adrian Praetzellis, Archaeological and Historical Studies at the San Fong Chong Laundry, 814 I Street, Sacramento, California (Rohnert Park, Calif.: Cultural Resources Studies Center, Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, 1990), p. 25. Asian market wares from archaeological sites in Riverside, California, are pictured in Fred W. Mueller Jr., “Asian Tz’u: Porcelain for the American Market,” in Wong Ho Leun: An American Chinatown, vol. 2: Archaeology (San Diego, Calif.: Great Basin Foundation, 1987), pp. 259–99, fig. 14.
4. The numbers might be available in Patricia Hagen Jones, “A Comparative Study of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Chinese Blue-and-White Export Ceramics from the Frolic Shipwreck, Mendocino County, California” (Master’s thesis, San Jose State University, 1992). The collections described in the book under review were donated by divers to the Frolic Shipwreck Repository in the Mendocino County Museum.
5. For a list of resources, see note 3, above. |