Description:
English creamware baluster-shaped jug with strap handle, decorated with three identical transfer prints of the Connecticut Charter Oak. Each of the prints along with their corresponding subtitle, "CONN. CHARTER OAK," have been reversed. The charter oak, which stood in Hartford, CT until 1856, gained notoriety when in 1687 the colony's original 1662 charter was hidden away inside the tree from the visiting governor general, Sir Edmund Andros. Andros had been sent by King James II, who, in order to gain greater control over the American colonies, sought to do away with Connecticut's original charter and create a Dominion of New England. Condition: the jug has been broken in several places and repaired, covered with overpaint in several areas with inpainting

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