TWO LIVERPOOL CREAMWARE SHIPPING JUGS

CIRCA 1800, THE FIRST ATTRIBUTED TO HERCULANEUM

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TWO LIVERPOOL CREAMWARE SHIPPING JUGS
Circa 1800, the first attributed to Herculaneum
The first Herculaneum, printed in black and enriched in colored enamels, one side with a three-masted ship flying the Union Jack, the other with GRETNA GREEN or the RED HOT MARRIAGE, below the spout with a variation on A Sailor's Farewell, the sailor embracing his love as his mate waits in a dinghy to take him to the ship waiting with furled sails behind, the rim gilt with a band of diaper pattern cartouches issuing leaves, the footrim with dentil, the monogram JP below the spout; the second Liverpool, printed in black on one side with a three masted ship flying an American flag, named NABBY. below, the other side with mourners at the tomb of George Washington, beneath the spout with the monogram MJ within a swagged wreath, the American eagle below, damaged
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) and 9¼ in. (23.4 cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

See Alan Smith, The Illustrated Guide to Liverpool Herculaneum Pottery, London, 1970, fig. 60 for a jug of similar form and gilt with the same rim and footrim borders as the first jug example in the collection of the Peabody-Essex Museum and attributed to Herculaneum; also Marian Klamkin, American patriotic and Political China, New York, 1973, p. 63, fig. 77 for a jug of similar form in the Mattatuck Museum printed with mourners at the tomb of George Washington.