Try Patricia Halfpenny, Curator of Ceramics and Glass at the Winterthur Museum,
Winterthur, DE 19735, phone: 800-448-3883, or William Sargent, Curator-Asian
Export Art at the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem,
Massachusetts 01970, phone: 800-745-4054, as they both have incredible
ceramics collections.

Melissa Heaver
National Trust for Historic Preservation
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Subject: Chinese pottery
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Date:    11/17/98 10:51 AM


Our local history museum owns a terra cotta teapot that had been the
property of First Lady Florence Harding.  According to our records, it
is a 19th century teapot made in China.  Does anyone know whom I could
consult to learn more?  You many reply on or off list.

Jane Rupp
The Marion County Historical Society
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