Description:
Liverpool creamware jug, decorated with yellow, green, blue, and red highlights over three black transfer prints documenting American patriotic symbolism used by English manufacturers. This design type of transfer-printed creamwares and pearlwares is commonly known as Liverpool-type ceramics. The print under the spout has thirteen stars over an American eagle with spread wings, facing right with a scroll with "E PLURIBUS UNUM" in its beak, a shield, and a sheaf of arrows in its right talon and olive branches in its left talon; the eagle is based on the American seal eagle issued in 1782, but the positions of the arrows and olive branch are reversed. The inscription around reads: "Peace, Commerce, and honest Friendship with all Nations - Entangling Alliances with none - JEFFERSON/ Anno Domini 1802". To the left of the coil handle, a cartouche has a bent willow over an urn and obelisk with the inscription: "GW/ SACRED to the memory/ of G. WASHINGTON,/ who emancipated Amer/ ica from slavery and/ founded a REPUBLIC/ upon such just and eq/ uitable principles that/ it will serve as a model./ Master M+H"; over busts of Samuel Adams over the initials "SA" and John Hancock over "JH"; over a hive and cornucopia symbolizing the industry and abundance of American manufactures and commerce. The inscription around reads: "The Memory of WASHINGTON and the Proscribed PATRIOTS of AMERICA/ Liberty, Virtue, Peace, Justice, and Equity to ALL Mankind". To the right, there is a cartouche with a large oval portrait of a militia officer standing in front of a cannon and under an American flag, and a farmer and horse in a field on the left, and cargo bales on the shore and ships in the right background. The inscription around reads: "Success to AMERICA whose MILITIA is better than Standing ARMIES/ May its Citizens Emulate Soldiers And its Soldiers HEROES", and below "While Justice is the Throne to which we are bound to bend/ Our Countrys Rights and Laws we ever will defend.
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