Date of Award

Spring 5-5-2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Art & Art History

First Advisor

Tara Zanardi

Second Advisor

Susanna Cole

Academic Program Adviser

Lynda Klich

Abstract

This thesis argues that the rise of the consumer market toward the end of the eighteenth century led to the production of decorated fine ceramics that became powerful modes of popularizing new ideas in the United States regarding independence, national symbols, and abolitionism.

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