Seneca Boston-Florence Higginbotham Collection
Sauceboat
Porcelain – cross mended pieces
Type: Porcelain, Canton
The Boston African Meeting House ceramic materials included a mended porcelain piece. This Porcelain ceramic, a wide rimmed ware, is a hand painted piece most likely dated between 1790 and 1835. The design is a hatched band on the interior with a Chinese garden motif with a possible entrance scene above two rocks and a valley. The ware is an elongated oval, most likely a Canton type. These were a mass-produced ware post-American Revolution with central motifs of Chinese gardens or village scenes. The ceramic assemblage of porcelain from the Boston African Meeting House is comprised of mostly hand painted tea wares. These wares were most likely more expensive and reserved for infrequent and formal occasions.
Burnett Glass Bottle
Burnett’s Standard Flavoring Extracts were a food flavoring extract made and sold by Joseph Burnett & Co. in Boston, Massachusetts from the mid-19th century through the mid-20th century. Joseph Burnett, the founder of the company started as an apothecarist and eventually moved over to producing and selling predominately household and food items. The flavoring extracts produced came in a variety of flavors including lemon, orange, ginger, nectarine, peach, celery, vanilla, almond, rose, gloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon. These flavors were advertised for flavoring various baked goods, soups, sauces, and gravies. The bottle shown is one such flavoring extract bottle, dating between 1910 through the 1920s.
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