Four English Creamware Transfer-Printed Soup Plates and Plates, 1791-1800. Comprising a 9.625-inch "AURORA of NEWPORT, JOHN CAHOONE" soup plate, probably Wilson Church Works, Staffordshire, 1791-1800, printed in black and painted in enamels, impressed "WILSON;" a 10.25-inch soup plate printed in black with a portrait of "THE RIGHT HON.BLE SIR ROBERT PEEL BAR.T MP;" a 9.875-inch plate, Herculaneum Pottery, Liverpool, circa 1800, printed in the center with a view of 'Columbia' holding an American shield and olive branch, in the foreground an adaptation of the Great Seal of the United States, the eagle bearing a shield and banner inscribed "E PLURIBUS UNUM," in the background a pyramidal monument inscribed on the base "SACRED TO THE / Memory of/ WASHINGTON," impressed 'HERCULANEUM;" and a 10-inch plate printed in black with a version of the Great Seal of the United States.Literature: A soup plate identical to the first in the offered lot is discussed and illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman, Patricia A. Halfpenny, Ronald W. Fuchs II, Essays by Wendell D. Garrett and Robin Emmerson, "Success to America: Creamware for the American Market Featuring the S. Robert Teitelman Collection at Winterthur," cat. n. 51, pp.182-183; a plate identical to the 'Columbia' plate is discussed and illustrated in ibid, cat. n. 62, p. 214 and Appendix II, cat. n. 25, p. 267.

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