Additional Image:

The inside of the tea bowl bears a small print of a tree growing on a rock.  It is said that this is a palmetto, a type of small palm tree that is native to South Carolina.
Shape Type
Breakfast & Tea Wares
Pattern Type
Chinese, Asian and Other Exotic Themes
Date
1765-1769
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 7.50 in (19.05 cm)
Maker
John Bartlam (Cain Hoy South Carolina)

Description:

This tea bowl is an example of the very rare group of bone ash softpaste porcelain, made by John Bartlam at Cain Hoy near Charleston between c1765-69.  This is now recognised as the first porcelain to have been produced in America.  Bartlam had left Staffordshire about 1763 to travel to Charleston with the object of setting up a pottery.  Shards of porcelain excavated at Cain
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