An English pearlware commemorative jug

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An English pearlware commemorative jug
printed in black and painted in colours with BONEYS return from RUSSIA to PARIS and BONEYS retreat from Wilna, the rim painted with leafy branches and red berries, circa 1813 (some damages and staining, spout restuck) -- 16cm. high
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Lot Essay

David Drakard, Printed English Pottery. History and Humour in the Reign of George III, 1760-1820 (1992), p.239, pl. 692 for a jug with part of the print depicted on the above jug, showing Napoleon mounted on an elongated horse.

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