Description:
English creamware jug decorated in Liverpool with black transfer prints with the following scenes: wreath enclosing "Tristram Cleaveland" over the figure of Hope with anchor and a sailing ship below the spout; a colored, three-masted ship in full sail flying the American flag with 15 stars and the words "The Commerce" to the right of the spout; and an elaborate emblem showing masonic symbols and the many attributes of Tristram Cleveland who "was killed by a whale" in 1802 at Batavia, Java, to the left of the spout. The son of Ezra Cleveland (1746-1822) and Abiah Neal (1749-1833) of Edgartown, Massachusetts (on Martha's Vineyard), Tristram (1771-1802) married Susanna Daggett (1767-1820) in 1795 in Edgartown. Tristram's brother, Joseph Cleveland (1773-1812) also had a son named Tristram, who was christened in 1803 and died at sea in 1822. The pitcher was later owned by a direct ancester of the donor; his family included Oliver Knight (b.1772) who married Daraxa Merrill in 1794 in Falmouth, Maine; Oliver and his brother Peter Merrill Knight were ship builders in Falmouth who moved to Portalnd, Maine, after the British attack on Falmouth in 1814. The jug descended from Oliver's son, Franklin Knight (1797-1883) who was a publisher in NY and moved to Washington, DC, in the 1840's; to Franklin Lafayette Knight (1824-1876); to Merrill D. Knight (1860-1943); to the donor, T. H. Owen Knight (b.1904).
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