A large creamware transfer-printed oviform jug

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A large creamware transfer-printed oviform jug
printed in black with a quarter-length portrait of Lord Viscount Duncan within a titled oval panel surmounted by a viscount's coronet and supported by two tritons rising from the sea where a battle takes place, within C-scrolls and flowering foliage, the reverse printed with a battle depicting several ships, within a similar cartouche and lesser panel, inscribed Admiral DUNCAN FOR EVER, within a wreath, circa 1797 (some cracks, small chip to foot, stained crazing) -- 27cm. high
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Lot Essay

Cf. John & Jennifer May, Commemorative Pottery 1780-1900 (1972), p. 91, pl. 151 for a similar print of Viscount Duncan.

The battle depicted is probably that of Camperdown, which took place on 11th October 1797, and in which over two thirds of the Dutch fleet was destroyed, and the Dutch flagship and the Dutch admiral both captured.

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