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Cincinnati china jylate} — Blue and white Canton ware, the interior 

 decorated with a flying figure of Fame with golden-brown wings, 

 blowing a trumpet. The figure is clothed in green with a sash of 

 red, and in the left hand holds suspended from a blue ribbon the 

 insignia of the Society of the Cincinnati. This design is encircled 

 with a single line of dark-brown arrowheads all pointing in the same 

 direction, and immediately beyond is a broad band of diaper pattern. 

 The scalloped rim of the piece is decorated with a design of flowers 

 and butterflies in medium blue with a single outside line of bead- 

 work. Diameter, 9| inches. Gift of Judge Joseph Holt. Cat. No. 

 123104, U.S.N.M. 



^'Martha Washington" china cup and saucer. — Part of a set of china 

 presented to Martlia Washington by Mr. Van Braam,- one of Washing- 

 ton's friends, and on account of the design commonly called "Martha 

 Wasliington china." Decorated with a sunburst of gold, below 

 which appears a red ribbon scroll inscribed: "Decus et tutamen ab 

 illo." Above, in the center of the sunburst, is a green laurel 

 wreath inclosing the monogram, ''M. W." The rims are decorated 

 with gilt fines, immediately below which is a blue and gold serpent. 

 Below this appears a chain of alternate large green and small gold 

 finks. Within the green finks appear the names of the foUowing 

 States: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire, 

 Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Ken- 

 tucky. Dimensions of cup: Diameter of base. If inches; diameter 

 of top, 3i inches ; height, with cover, 4^ inches. Dimensions of saucer: 

 Diameter, 6^ inches; height, 1-J inches. Lewis coUection. Cat. No. 

 92394, U.S.N.M. 



GLASSWARE. 



Blue glass howl. — Probably used for sugar; top lacking. American 

 ware with corrugated surface. Diameter, 5 inches; height, 3 inches. 

 Lewis collection. Cat. No. 92378, U.S.N.M. 



Eight rum or punch glasses. — Each plain and keg-shaped, with 

 handle extending nearly the entire height of glass. Diameter, 2| 

 inches; height, 2^ inches. Lewis coUection. Plate 18. Cat. Nos. 

 92358-65, U.S.N.M. 



Two glass tumblers. — (1) Encircled with a succession of parallel 

 raised lines. Diameter, 3^ inches; height, 3 inches. Lewis collection. 

 Cat. No. 92366, U.S.N.M. 



(2) Decorated with a deficate design of draped fines and eight- 

 pointed stars. Diameter of bottom. If inches; diameter of top, 2f 

 inches; height, 3 inches. Lewis collection. Cat. No. 92367, U.S.N.M. 



' A number of sets of china bearing the insignia of the Society of the Cincinnati were imported from the 

 Orient by original members of the society. Compare page 16 of this paper, Note 1, and Mrs. Alice Morse 

 Earle's China Collecting in America, page 239. 



* See copy of Martha Washington's will in Benson J. Lossing's Mount Vernon and Its Associations, 

 page 422; also Mrs. Alice Morse Earle's China Collecting in America, page 240. 



