A Herculaneum creamware 'Liverpool Amnesty' oviform jug

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A Herculaneum creamware 'Liverpool Amnesty' oviform jug
transfer-printed with a vignette of figures outside a gaol, below figures of Britannia and Charity, the reverse with the Royal Arms from an engraving by T. Dixon, circa 1809 (damages and old restoration) -- 23cm. high
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Lot Essay

Cf. J. & J. May, Commemorative Pottery 1780-1900 (1972), p.21, pl.36; see also David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, History and Humour in the Reign of George III, 1760-1820 (1992), p.221, pls.621 and 622.

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