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Description
This transfer-printed soup tureen is from a large set of china from the Wadsworth-Longfellow House in Portland.
The set may have been a wedding gift to Zilpah Wadsworth from Stephen Longfellow after they married in 1804.
Ceramic items like this were imported from England by local merchants, and then sold in the shops that lined city streets.
About This Item
- Title: Soup tureen, Portland, ca. 1810
- Creator: Henshall & Co., Staffordshire, England
- Creation Date: circa 1810
- Subject Date: circa 1810
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Transfer printed pearlware
- Local Code: A85-1-U1
- Object Type: Physical Object
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Pottery
- Tableware
- Families--Maine--Portland
- Wadsworth-Longfellow House (Portland, Me.)
- Longfellow, Stephen, 1776-1849--Marriage
- Wadsworth family
- Longfellow, Zilpah Wadsworth, 1778-1851--Marriage
- Longfellow, Zilpah Wadsworth, 1778-1851--Associated objects
- Tureens
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
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