China Collecting In America Author:Alice Morse Earle Second Printing 1982. The reader will find china either owned by or named after Washington, Lincoln, Grant; a Lafayette-landing platter; a tomb of Franklin teapot; china picturing John Hancock's house; Philadelphia library plates; a Harvard College plate; MacDonough's victory plate; Baltimore and Ohio's railroad plates; old Winchester in Japan ... more »taste, and dozens of other heirlooms romantically described and beautifully illustrated.
This a banquet of rare china, a treasure trove for the connoisseur and collector alike-a sparkling dish of early Americana.« less