1. John Kille, “Fire the Kiln, Raise the Flag, and Praise God: The Bayley Jug and the Convergence of Craftmaking, Politics, and Religion in Eighteenth-Century New England,” in Piecing It Together: Ceramics and the Social History of Early New England (York, Me.: Old York Historical Society, 1997), pp. 25–42. The subject of this study is the rare earthenware communion jug illustrated in fig. 4 of this article. 2. Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography (New York: Random House, 1992), p. 290. Willie died of typhoid fever in 1862 at age eleven. 3. See Joan Leibowitz, Yellow Ware: The Transitional Ceramic (Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 1985); Lisa S. McAllister and John L. Michel, Collecting Yellow Ware (Paducah, Ky.: Collector Books, 1995); Lisa S. McAllister, Collector’s Guide to Yellow Ware Book II (Paducah, Ky.: Collector Books, 1997); and Lisa S. McAllister, Collector’s Guide to Yellow Ware Book III (Paducah, Ky.: Collector Books, 2003). A similar flask is pictured in McAllister and Michel, Collecting Yellow Ware, p. 101. However, it is incised with the name “JIM CROW,” a blackface character performed by American entertainer Thomas Dartmouth Rice, who brought his act to English theaters in 1836. 4. Jane Perkins Claney, Rockingham Ware in American Culture, 1830–1930: Reading Historical Artifacts (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2004), pp. 81–84, in which the popularity and successful marketing of Rebecca-at-the-Well teapots are explored. 5. Ivor Noël Hume, If These Pots Could Talk: Collecting 2,000 Years of British Household Pottery (Milwaukee, Wis.: Chipstone Foundation, 2001), pp. 301–27. This chapter provides an excellent discussion of nineteenth-century English portrait and Toby flasks, as well as illustrations of several of these vessels.