https://www.historiccharleston.org/blog/test-nathaniel-russell-house-post/
https://www.charlestonmuseum.org/assets/pdf/ArchaeologyReports/Nathaniel%20Russell%20House%202021%20-%20AC%2053.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Sturgis_(1805%E2%80%931887)
https://www.worcesterart.org/collection/Early_American/Artists/stuart/russell/discussion.html
and Aiken-Rhett House
https://knightsbridgecharleston.com/product/chinese-export-round-cocktail-table/
As our archaeology excavations inch deeper into the cellar soil at the #russellhousekitchenhouse, we’re uncovering more pieces from the property’s earlier periods. This remarkable fragment of a Chinese porcelain tureen, for example, would have fit right in among the Russell Family’s finery. Nathaniel Russell and plenty of other local merchants began importing Chinese porcelain almost immediately after America opened a direct line of trade to China in 1784. By the end of the century, business was booming. One particular vessel (appropriately but unrelatedly named Russell), advertised in a 1797 edition of the South Carolina Gazette that it had made port in Charles Town carrying a 37,000-pound payload of porcelain tablewares “direct from Canton China.”