[Sca-cooks] pineapples

[Terry Decker]

The pineapple motifs to which you refer are primarily 18th Century 
artifacts, when imported pineapple became a local craze.  Williamsburg was 
founded in 1632 and was the capitol of Virginia from 1699 until 1799, so you 
are talking mid-17th through the 18th Centuries at best.  Earlier pineapple 
decorations would most likely be stylized pine cones.

Bear


> I first ran into them as decorative items in Colonial times when I was
> in school in Williamsburg, VA...and they really were quite popular.
> They signified hospitality, as I understand it.  So if they'd been
> around long enough to take on a special significance, they probably were
> know around the turn of the16th - 17th centuries.
>
> Kiri