A Liverpool Transfer-Printed Creamware 'Peace, Plenty, and Independence / James Madison' Pitcher

Likely Herculaneum Pottery, England, Late 18th Century

one side with medallion reading Peace, / Plenty / and / Independence surmounted by a spread-winged eagle perched on a cannon and flanked by allegorical figures of Peace and Plenty; the opposite with oval portrait of James Madison surmounted by scroll reading, James Maddison [sic] President of the United States and surrounded by interwoven oak and vine chain with names of the fifteen states.
with Seal of the United States transfer under the spout.
Height 8 inches.

An identical example is found in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Washington, DC (63.163).

Literature:

'Peace' transfer inventoried as P.14 and illustrated p. 147 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.

Madison portrait inventoried as M.7 and illustrated p. 134 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.