American Art Teabowl Made in Cain Hoy, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America1765-70 John Bartlam Factory, Cain Hoy, South Carolina, 1765 - 1770 Soft-paste porcelain with underglaze blue hand-painted (interior) and transfer-printed (exterior) decoration Currently not on view 2012-77-1 Purchased with the Baugh-Barber Fund, 2012 |
LabelThis teabowl is one of four known examples made between 1765 and 1770 at John Bartlam’s porcelain factory Cain Hoy in South Carolina, nine miles north of Charleston on the Wando River. Bartlam, a potter born and trained in the ceramic-producing area of Staffordshire, England, used local clays to create what is believed to be the first porcelain in North America. His ability to attract skilled workers from English potteries and successfully manufacture porcelain was a source of inspiration for Gousse Bonnin and George Anthony Morris, who were planning their Philadelphia factory. |
