Description:
English pearlware saucer with a blue-edged rim and turned foot rim and teacup (HD 90.210.1) with black transfer-printed decoration of a variation of the American eagle taken from the Great Seal of the United States adopted by the Continental Congress in 1782, which was made for the American market. Transfer-printed creamwares and pearlwares of this design are commonly known as "Liverpool-type" ceramics. Jugs, plates, bowls, plaques, and mugs were often potted locally or produced in Staffordshire for the many transfer-printing establishments in Liverpool. Orders from Americans, especially ship captains, kept these printing businesses busy as they successfully used images designed to appeal to the sentiments, politics, and patriotism of Americans. The base of this saucer has an impressed mark of a human hand with a heart in the center. The center well has an eagle with wings outstretched looking to the left and a shield in front ot its body, with its left talon holding an olive branch on the top left of the shield and the right talon holding a bunch of arrows below the shield; there are borders of flowers and scrolls on a stippled ground on the remaining ground. The same printed pattern is found on teacup and saucer ( HD 2006.26.3-.4) and plate (HD 56.013). Duckworth # 927 C & S.
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