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  • When Wedgwood and Bentley were designated "Potters to the Queen," and began making "queensware," coining the word, they laid the sure foundation for one of the greatest business fortunes ever accumulated in

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • Creamware, queensware, and pearlware were used for table service.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Creamware, queensware, and pearlware were used for table service.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Creamware, queensware, and pearlware were used for table service.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Creamware, queensware, and pearlware were used for table service.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • With tea came queensware: and half-a-dozen cups and saucers, usually of

    Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

  • When Mrs. Worthington came back from Europe and opened her house to the City Federation, and gave a colored lantern-slide lecture on "An evening with the Old Masters," serving punch from her own cut-glass punch bowl instead of renting the hand-painted crockery bowl of the queensware store, the old dull pain came back into the hearts of the dwellers in the inner circle.

    Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

  • He's slo 'mouthed as I'm tellin' you, but he's gittin 'over them spells an' I'm gwinter c'wore him if I hafter go into the queensware bus'ness on my own hook.

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

  • Dishes of blue queensware, knives and forks, cups and saucers of various patterns, and a bowl of molasses were placed upon the table; and finally the woman said, speaking to, though not looking at, me, --

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

  • When Mrs. Worthington came back from Europe and opened her house to the City Federation, and gave a coloured lantern-slide lecture on "An evening with the Old Masters," serving punch from her own cut-glass punch bowl instead of renting the hand-painted crockery bowl of the queensware store, the old dull pain came back into the hearts of the dwellers in the inner circle.

    In Our Town William Allen White 1906

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