"Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World," Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary traveling exhibition, 2005-2008

Tea service

Hancock, Robert
Worcester Factory,

Godden, Geoffrey A., Godden's New Guide to English Porcelain (London : Miller's, 2004) Godden describes the transfer-printing process and Robert Hancock, pp. 56-61.

Spero, Simon, and John Sandon, Worcester Porcelain, 1750 - 1790; The Zorensky Collection, A publication of the Antique collectors' Club pp. 368-372, for discussion of transfer printing at Worcestere; p. 389, catalogue #506, illus. teabowl and saucer in the "Milkmaids" pattern.

Talbott, Page, ed., Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (New Haven and London: Yale University, 2005) (companion book to exhibition of same title)

The service descended from Sarah Bache, apparently in conjunction with Carnegie Museum of Art's 75.26.1. Franklin's accounts do not appear to contain an entry that covers the purchase of the service, but his correspondence contains many references to ceramics that he bought either as gifts or because of his interest in encouraging the development of the industry in the colonies, later the states.

These wares are of additional interest because they show the Worcester factory copying the shapes of Chinese teawares closely.