Name/Title
Flow Blue Plate | R. Hall's, Select Views, Warleigh House, Somersetshire, England | Stone China | c.1825Description
An early 19th century flow blue English stone china dish that was pieced back together from a number of shards. On the back of the dish is stamped: R. Hall's, Select Views, Warleigh House, Somersetshire, Stone China. The 8 1/2 inch wide dish was made in England and dates to about 1825. This dish was unearthed in 2018 during the excavation of a six foot deep 19th century household “dump” in this region that was filled with thousands upon thousands of beautiful, but broken early 19th century ceramic and glass shards. The “dump” was on the site of a large house built in 1824 and torn down in the early 1960s. The house underwent considerable renovation in the mid-19th century. During this renovation, the existing house pantry full of ceramic and glass ware was likely cleared out and thrown in the “dump.” Some ceramic and glass shards came into the institute’s collections during this initial excavation, but much was also taken out of the region to Portland, Maine and to North Dakota. The institute sought the return of what was removed from the area. All that went to the Portland area is now back in the institute’s collections. Nearly all (including this piece), with the exception of two pieces, that went to North Dakota is now back in the institute’s collections. In the summer of 2020, another excavation of the same household “dump” was undertaken and several hundred more ceramic and glass shards were found, some of which perfectly matched shards unearthed two years before. About 100 ceramic and glass pieces have been put back together, either entirely or nearly entirely.
( ) From Eastport Sentinel, March 29, 1882, p.2, c.5-6:
Some old Eastport Houses,
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AND THEIR OCCUPANTS.— A FAMILIAR RETROSPECT.
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PAPER NO. 2
In the fine modern looking residence of Edward C. Pike on the same side above Elm street it would be difficult to recognize the outgrowth of one of these old hipped roof houses, but this one was built in that style in 1824 by Charles Peavey. In my earliest memory it was the home of Levi Ingols, a prominent dry goods dealer, and held of the well known firm, Ingols, & Chace and Ingols & Eustis. They kept in the brick store on Water street under the old Commercial Coffee House, and Edward H. Burgin and William P. Bucknam were boys learning the business behind the counter. Afterwards the house was occupied by Edward Ilsley, at one time in the hardware business, and the first Cashier of the Frontier Bank. Mr. & Mrs. Ilsley are still living at an advanced age in Wisconsin, and their sons have achieved marked success as business men. I well remember when immediately after one of the weddings which I attended at the Hayden house, this house was opened as the home of George W. McLellan. He had a natural turn for politics, represented the town in the State Legislature, as he afterwards did Cambridge in the General Court of Massachusetts, was Sheriff of Washington County, Deputy Collector of the Port of Boston and finally Assistant Post Master General of the United States. Among later occupants of the house were Charles H. Hayden of the family first named in this article, who was the second Cashier fo the Frontier Bank, and John W. Bass a merchant of large business when ship building was at its height in Eastern Maine.
QUODDY
