LIVERPOOL CREAMWARE TRANSFER-PRINTED JUG CIRCA 1800-10

Printed on one side with a map of the United States flanked on the left by George Washington and 'Liberty' below 'Fame' blowing a trumpet, and on the right by Benjamin Franklin, 'Wisdom' and 'Justice' below an American flag; the reverse with an oval panel inscribed As he tills your rich glebe, the old peasant shall tell, While his bosom with Liberty glows, How your Warren expired - how Montgomery fell, and how WASHINGTON humbled your foes; with an shield-emblazoned American eagle below a wreath inscribed JAMES AND HANNAH LATTIMORE beneath the spout. 

Spout restored with extensive discolored overspraying to the rim and body beneath the spout.
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A jug with a similar 'Washington map' print is illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman et al, Success to America, Creamware for the American Market, p. 103, cat. no. 20, where the authors discuss the source, a large map of the United States, which published by John Wallis and illustrated on p. 102. According to the authors, "the map was one of the first published European images to recognize the new nation's independence and the first to incorporate the American flag." Another jug with this print is illustrated in Robert McCauley, Liverpool Transfer Designs on Anglo-American Pottery, pl. XXIV, no. 58A.