A LIVERPOOL (HERCULANEUM) CREAMWARE SHIPPING BOWL

CIRCA 1800

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A LIVERPOOL (HERCULANEUM) CREAMWARE SHIPPING BOWL
Circa 1800
Of hemispheric form, the interior printed in black and enriched in enamel colors with a two-masted ship flying the British flag, sails on the horizon, the waves edged in foliate scrolls, inscribed below Success to the Ann of MARYPORT/Captn. W:m Thompson, the rim painted in black with a bamd of anthemia, the exterior printed in black with NEPTUNE & AMPHITRITE, with a figure emblematic of Hope leaning on an anchor, and with three men at a table in a landscape vignette relaxing, one drinking, one smoking a pipe, one playing a violin
5½ in. (14 cm.) high; 13¼ in. (33.7 cm.) diameter; with a silvered metal stand (2)

拍品專文

Located in Cumbria just outside Liverpool at the mouth of the Solway Firth and the River Ellen, Maryport was a shipbuilding center until the onset of World War I. In the late 18th/early 19th century when the present bowl was made, the shipbuilding industry was booming. The present bowl will have been presented to Captain Thomas at the launching of the named ship. The name of the town was officially registered as Maryport in 1791.

See Alan Smith, The Illustrated Guide to Liverpool Herculaneum Pottery, London, 1970, figs. 47 & 48, for illustrations of two jugs enameled in black with the same anthemia border as that found on the present shipping bowl. The first is printed with a ship and is impressed on the underside with the factory's uppercase mark. The second is printed with a view of the Mold Cotton Mill, Flintshire, North Wales, built in 1792.