CIRCA 1802

Oviform with loop handle and beak spout, transfer-printed in black and enriched in colors, one side with 'Success to AMERICA whose MILITIA is better than the Standing ARMIES/May its Citizens Emulate Soldiers and its Soldiers HEROS While Justice is the Throne to which we'are bound to bend/Our Countrys Rights and Laws we ever will defend' (McCauley, no. 178), the other with portraits of Samuel Adams and John Hancock below George Washington's tomb and above a beehive, titled 'The Memory of WASHINGTON and the Proscribed PATRIOTS of AMERICA/Liberty, Virtue, Peace, Justice and Equity to ALL Mankind/Columbia's Sons inspir'd by Freedoms Flame/Live in the Annals of immortal Fame' (McCauley, no. 192), beneath the spout with the seal of the United States above a quote from Thomas Jefferson and dated 1802, 'Peace, Commerce, and honest Friendship with all Nations/Entangling Alliances with none' (McCauley, no. 155)

See Robert H. McCauley, Liverpool Transfer Designs on Anglo-American Pottery, 1942 for the set of prints referenced above from which the present decoration is taken; see also The Estate of Malcolm S. Burroughs, (Skinner, Inc., Bolton, MA, October 28, 2000), lot 167 for a similar example.

A pitcher with virtually identical decoration is illustrated in Israel Sack American Furniture from the Israel Sack Collection, vol. 6, p. 1623.