Number 17 Chestnut Street, the Captain Stephen Phillips House, 2005. (Photo, George Schwartz.)
Figure 5
Selected examples of the ceramic and glass assemblage excavated from the Phillips trash pit. (Courtesy, Peabody Essex Museum; unless otherwise noted, all artifact photographs by Walter Silver.)
Figure 6
Distribution of artifacts recovered from the Phillips trash pit.
Figure 7
Distribution by ceramic type of plates recovered from the Phillips trash pit.
Figure 8
Teabowls and saucers recovered from the Phillips trash pit.
Figure 9
Selected examples of the Chinese porcelain recovered from the Phillips trash pit. (Courtesy, Peabody Essex Museum.)
Figure 10
Types of Chinese porcelain recovered from the Phillips trash pit.
Figure 11
Teabowl and saucer, China, 1760–1780, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Hard-paste porcelain with underglaze-blue decoration in the Nanking style. D. of bowl 3 1/2", D. of saucer 5 1/2".
Figure 12
Plate, China, 1790–1820, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Hard-paste porcelain. D. 5 3/4". The rim of this low-quality Canton-style porcelain is heavily pitted.
Figure 13
Plate fragments, China, ca. 1750, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Hard-paste porcelain.
Figure 14
Plate fragment, China, 1750–1765, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Hard-paste porcelain. This fragment, from an overglazed Japanese-style porcelain plate, shows the leg of a bird (see arrow) similar to one on the soup plate illustrated in fig. 15.
Figure 15
Soup plate, China, 1750–1765, illustrated in Daniel Nadler, China to Order (Paris: Vilo International, 2001), p. 83, pl. 74.
Figure 16
Types of pearlware recovered from the Phillips trash pit.
Figure 17
Plate, probably Staffordshire, England, 1780–1810, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Pearlware. D. 7".
Figure 18
Shell-edged plate illustrated in Josiah Wedgwood’s 1802 trade catalog. (Courtesy, Birmingham Museum of Art.)
Figure 19
Saucers, England, 1785–1810, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Pearlware or China glaze. D. 6".
Figure 20
Teabowl and saucer, Staffordshire, England, 1810–?, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Pearlware or China glaze. D. of teabowl 3 1/2", D. of saucer 5 1/4".
Figure 21
Chamber pot, possibly Staffordshire, England, 1785–1810, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Pearlware in the scratch-blue style. H. 5 1/2". Mark: “GR” on side.
Figure 22
Types of creamware vessels recovered from the Phillips trash pit.
Figure 23
Plate, probably Staffordshire, England, 1790–1810, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Creamware in the Flat Rim style. D. 8 1/2".
Figure 24
Flat-rim creamware plate illustrated in Josiah Wedgwood’s 1802 sale catalog. (Courtesy, Birmingham Museum of Art.)
Figure 25
Plate, probably Staffordshire, England, 1790–1810, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Creamware in the Royal style. D. 8".
Figure 26
Royal Pattern creamware illustrated in Josiah Wedgwood’s 1802 trade catalog. (Courtesy, Birmingham Museum of Art.)
Figure 27
Types of glass vessels recovered from the Phillips trash pit.
Figure 28
Wineglass, shot glass, and punch cup. Possibly Germany, 1790–?, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Leaded glass. H. of wineglass 5 1/2".
Figure 29
Glass forms illustrated in Johannes Schiefer, Pattern Book for Glass, ca. 1790–1825. (Courtesy, The Winterthur Library: Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera.)
Figure 30
Wine bottles, France (far left) and England, 1780–1810, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Blown glass. H. of tallest 13".
Figure 31
Storage jar, milk pan, and chamber pot, New England, 1800–1820, recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Lead-glazed earthenware. D. of milk pan 6".
Figure 32
Gin/mineral water bottle (left), Germany, 1750–1820; Westerwald-style storage jar (center), Germany, 1780–1820; Jug (right), Connecticut, 1800–1820, all recovered from the Phillips trash pit. Salt-glazed stoneware. H. of storage jar 14 1/4".
Figure 33
Detail of the inscribed mark on the body of the storage jar illustrated in fig. 32.
Figure 34
Ceramic types recovered from the Phillips trash pit.
Figure 35
Advertisements and listings published in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Salem newspapers.