Commemorative Teapot Manufacturers were quick to bring products to the market celebrating weighty political events, like this British teapot heralding “Stamp Act Repeal’d.” By purchasing such items, ordinary people could champion political causes of the day and bring public affairs into their private lives.
(Made by the Cockhill Pit Factory, 1766/© Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA/Bridgeman Images)