Glass and Porcelain
1800 Washington Memorial Liverpool Pitcher
c. 1800, LIVERPOOL CREAMWARE PITCHER: Washington's Tomb, & "Peace, Plenty, And Independence," By Herculaneum Pottery, England, Very Choice Extremely Fine.
Cream-colored Liverpool pitcher, 9" high, with 5.25" base and large black transfer prints. The main print features a scene at Washington's tomb, with slogans inscribed on the sides of the tomb: "FIRST IN WAR FIRST IN PEACE FIRST IN FAME IN VIRTUE", with a profile portrait of Washington, and birth/death dates. The pedestal is flanked by a bearded clergyman, a soldier, a winged angel with trumpet, a boy in uniform at the foot of the tomb, and a kneeling Indian. The detailed scene is encircled by the names of the thirteen original states, with "KENTUCKEY" (sic) subsituted for Rhode Island. A similar print is depicted on page 207, #W.45, of Armans (1998). Produced by the Herculaneum Pottery group, as noted in the black transfer print of a heraldic eagle/seal of the United States, which appears below the spout. The large print on the side opposite Washington's tomb features a large heraldic eagle perched on a cannon and an oval disk inscribed: "PEACE, PLENTY AND INDEPENDENCE." Two maidens in togas, carrying cornucopia stand on either side of a cluster of militaria. (Similar to P.14, page 147, Armans). A very nice, important variety--marked by the pottery maker!
Liverpool Creamware is the name generally given to pottery produced in England during the mid-18th- and early-19th-century by potters who were obsessed with the idea of copying Chinese porcelain--considered to be the highest quality ceramic available. Certain potters, such as Josiah Wedgewood, Thomas Whieldon and Josiah Spode, made improvements to the existing earthenwares, which they named "creamware" (or in Wedgewood's case "Queensware"). This thin earthenware was dipped into a clear glaze, which combined with the natural impurities of the clay to give the ware a creamy, pale yellow tint. Creamware is readily identifiable as a pottery having a cream-colored body and a perfectly clear glaze. The earliest transfer prints were applied over the glazes of the creamware, a practice which continued well into the 19th century. The dates of production of Liverpool creamware ran from 1760 to 1820, with the Revolutionary War figures and events predominant. Normally all of the transfer prints were done in black, with the exceptions of a very few pieces found with transfers in red, rust, carmine, sepia, lavender, or green. The latter three are really quite rare. Certain Liverpool potters made it a practice to embellish the black transfers with a variety of hand-applied enamels in red, blue, green, yellow and brown. (See Arman, p. 11-21).
1800 Washington Memorial Liverpool Pitcher
c. 1800, LIVERPOOL CREAMWARE PITCHER: Washington's Tomb, & "Peace, Plenty, And Independence," By Herculaneum Pottery, England, Very Choice Extremely Fine.
Cream-colored Liverpool pitcher, 9" high, with 5.25" base and large black transfer prints. The main print features a scene at Washington's tomb, with slogans inscribed on the sides of the tomb: "FIRST IN WAR FIRST IN PEACE FIRST IN FAME IN VIRTUE", with a profile portrait of Washington, and birth/death dates. The pedestal is flanked by a bearded clergyman, a soldier, a winged angel with trumpet, a boy in uniform at the foot of the tomb, and a kneeling Indian. The detailed scene is encircled by the names of the thirteen original states, with "KENTUCKEY" (sic) subsituted for Rhode Island. A similar print is depicted on page 207, #W.45, of Armans (1998). Produced by the Herculaneum Pottery group, as noted in the black transfer print of a heraldic eagle/seal of the United States, which appears below the spout. The large print on the side opposite Washington's tomb features a large heraldic eagle perched on a cannon and an oval disk inscribed: "PEACE, PLENTY AND INDEPENDENCE." Two maidens in togas, carrying cornucopia stand on either side of a cluster of militaria. (Similar to P.14, page 147, Armans). A very nice, important variety--marked by the pottery maker!
Liverpool Creamware is the name generally given to pottery produced in England during the mid-18th- and early-19th-century by potters who were obsessed with the idea of copying Chinese porcelain--considered to be the highest quality ceramic available. Certain potters, such as Josiah Wedgewood, Thomas Whieldon and Josiah Spode, made improvements to the existing earthenwares, which they named "creamware" (or in Wedgewood's case "Queensware"). This thin earthenware was dipped into a clear glaze, which combined with the natural impurities of the clay to give the ware a creamy, pale yellow tint. Creamware is readily identifiable as a pottery having a cream-colored body and a perfectly clear glaze. The earliest transfer prints were applied over the glazes of the creamware, a practice which continued well into the 19th century. The dates of production of Liverpool creamware ran from 1760 to 1820, with the Revolutionary War figures and events predominant. Normally all of the transfer prints were done in black, with the exceptions of a very few pieces found with transfers in red, rust, carmine, sepia, lavender, or green. The latter three are really quite rare. Certain Liverpool potters made it a practice to embellish the black transfers with a variety of hand-applied enamels in red, blue, green, yellow and brown. (See Arman, p. 11-21).
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Autographs-Coins-Currency-Americana
9:00 AM PT - Feb 17th, 2008
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