LIVERPOOL CREAMWARE TRANSFER-PRINTED JUG CIRCA 1800-1810

Printed in black on one side with mourners at Washington's tomb within a border of lozenges inscribed with the names of the thirteen colonies and on the other with two female figures of Plenty flanking an eagle perched on a cannon above an oval medallion inscribed PEACE, PLENTY AND INDEPENDENCE, with a shield-emblazoned eagle beneath the spout.

The spout is restored and there is a 1 1/4-in restored chip to the rim above the eagle. Some scratching to the transfer-printed decoration.
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The prints on the present jug are illustrated in Robert H. McCauley, Liverpool Transfer Designs on Anglo-American Pottery, pl. XXVIII, no. 187, pl. XXV, no.63. Two black-printed and enamelled jugs with the mourners by Washington's tomb is illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman et al, Success to America, Creamware for the American Market, pp. 166 and 176. cat. nos. 46 and 49.