Description:
English earthenware jug with a wheel-thrown globular body and applied handle, which is decorated with silver luster, a black transfer print, and gilding. The black print, shown on both sides, depicts a country scene of a mill and man on horseback. The initials "L. M." and the date "1813" over two fronds and a bow are painted in gold underneath the spout. Silver luster is really a misnomer since a more accurate description is platinum luster since platinum salts are used in the manufacture. J. & E. Dwight of Springfield, Massachusetts, advertised in the Hampshire Federalist (Springfield, MA) on March 8, 1810, the sale of "black print steel luster pitchers" which may have resembled this example.
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