❦ CHINA COLLECTING IN AMERICA ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ BY ALICE MORSE EARLE [Illustration: [Tea Pot]] _ILLUSTRATED_ CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS NEW YORK MCMVI _Copyright, 1892, by Charles Scribner’s Sons_ TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK TO THE COMPANION OF MY CHINA HUNTS MY SISTER FRANCES CLARY MORSE CONTENTS I. PAGE _China Hunting_, _1_ II. _Trencher Treen and Pewter Bright_, _38_ III. _Early Use and Importation of China in America_, _52_ IV. _Early Fictile Art in America_, _70_ V. _Earliest Pottery Wares_, _102_ VI. _English Porcelains in America_, _119_ VII. _Liverpool and other Printed Ware_, _135_ VIII. _Oriental China_, _165_ IX. _The Cosey Teapot_, _196_ X. _Punch-bowls and Punches_, _210_ XI. _George and Martha Washington’s China_, _229_ XII. _Presidential China_, _249_ XIII. _Designs Relating to Washington_, _257_ XIV. _Designs Relating to Franklin_, _274_ XV. _Designs Relating to Lafayette_, _288_ XVI. _Patriotic and Political Designs_, _299_ XVII. _Staffordshire Wares_, _316_ XVIII. _China Memories_, _376_ XIX. _China Collections_, _409_ _Index_, _425_ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS