Elizabeth Donison, Ned Rose and Angelika Kuettner
English Delft for Colonial Tavern Tables in King William County and Williamsburg, Virginia

Ceramics in America 2023

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  • Figure 1
    Figure 1

     Detail of the plate illustrated in fig. 6.

  • Figure 2
    Figure 2

    King William Courthouse, King William County, Virginia, ca. 1725–1726. (Photo, Robert Hunter.) The building, which faces south, is a one-story structure of red-colored brick laid in Flemish bond. The courthouse is the oldest courthouse still in use in the United States.

  • Figure 3
    Figure 3

    A plan of the King William County Courthouse property showing the conjectural locations of historic buildings, including the eighteenthcentury “Colonial Ordinary” to the east. The plan was made by the architect Graham Evans and is published in Alonzo Thomas Dill, King William County Courthouse: A Memorial to Virginia Self-Government (King William, Va.: King William County Board of Supervisors, 1984), p. 10.

  • Figure 4
    Figure 4

    Wetherburn’s Tavern, Williamsburg, 2022. (Photo, Robert Hunter.) Now a Colonial Williamsburg exhibition building, this tavern was built ca. 1742 and operated throughout most of the eighteenth century.

  • Figure 5
    Figure 5

    Plan of the King William Courthouse Archaeological Excavations, King William Country, Virginia, 2021. (Courtesy, DATA Investigations.)

  • Figure 6
    Figure 6

    Plate, Liverpool, England, ca. 1740–1745. Tin-glazed earthenware. D. 9". (King William Historical Society; photo, Robert Hunter.)

  • Figure 7
    Figure 7

    Plate, Liverpool, England, 1744. Tin-glazed earthenware. D. 8 3/4". Marks: inscribed on underside, R /• I • E • / 1744 (National Museums of Liverpool.)

  • Figure 8
    Figure 8

    Archaeological excavations at Wetherburn’s Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia, ca. 1966. (Photo, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.)

  • Figure 9
    Figure 9

    Plate fragments, Liverpool, England, ca. 1740. Tin-glazed earthenware. D. approx. 9". (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Archaeological Collections.) Cross-mended plate fragments recovered from the site of Henry Wetherburn’s Tavern (OBJ09NA-07379), Williamsburg, Virginia.

  • Figure 10
    Figure 10

    Three plates, Liverpool,England, ca. 1742. Tin-glazed earthenware. D. 8 3/4". (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Collections. Museum purchase and gift funds from Mr. & Mrs. Davis W. Moore.)