The first American porcelain – new discoveries
For more than a generation students of American ceramic history were taught that the first successful producers of porcelain in North America were Gousse Bonnin (1741-c.1780) and George Anthony Morris (1741/5-73), who ran the short-lived American China Manufactory in Philadelphia between 1769 and 1772.
But, as the discovery of a previously unrecorded teapot suggests, there was another story – perhaps …