Whiteware Tea Cup
description: London shape, chrome-painted whiteware tea cups were commonly imported into the United States. The flower vine pattern was commonly seen on nineteenth-century whiteware.
source: Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J.
publisher: Rutgers University-Camden
date: c. 1815-1880; photograph, July 2018
contributor: Ernie Ariens (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner.
rights: Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts
relation: Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation.
format: ceramic demitasse cup, approximately 3" diameter.