* Scholarship in this field continues to surprise. Discoveries are shedding light on the embryonic days of porcelain production in America in the era of the Nonimportation Agreements and calls to boycott English goods.
Excavations on the site of the new Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia have yielded rich deposits of 18th century material culture – including two examples of an American hardpaste porcelain c.1765-70 by an unknown factory (one shown left).
A fragmentary punch bowl exhibited at the 2017 New York Ceramics & Glass Fair was followed at this year’s event in January with the display of a blue and white teapot.