A Very Rare Staffordshire Transfer-Print Creamware War of 1812 Portrait Pitcher

Davenport Pottery, England, Early 19th Century

one side with bust-length portrait of Oliver Hazard Perry in uniform; the opposite with bust-length portrait of Andrew Jackson as Major General in uniform.
with three-masted sailing ship flying fifteen-star American flag beneath the spout.
black line border and highlights to both rim and handle.
Height 8 inches.

David and Linda Arman note in Anglo-American Ceramics, Part I that there is only one other recorded example of the Davenport Perry portrait transfer used on a pitcher. Similarly, the Jackson transfer is employed on just three known pitcher examples.

Literature:

Perry portrait inventoried as P.20b and illustrated p. 149 in David and Linda Arman's Anglo-American Ceramics, Part I: Transfer Printer Creamware and Pearlware for the American Market, 1760-1860, Oakland Press: Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1998.

Jackson portrait inventoried as J.1 and illustrated p. 111 in David and Linda Arman's Anglo-American Ceramics, Part I: Transfer Printer Creamware and Pearlware for the American Market, 1760-1860, Oakland Press: Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1998.