A Liverpool Transfer-Printed Creamware 'Proscribed Patriots / Success to America' Pitcher with Polychrome Embellishment

Early 19th Century

one side with monument initialed G.W. and vignette portraits of Samuel Adams and John Hancock, identified with initials and with text reading, Columbias Sons inspir'd by Freedoms Flame / Live in the Annals of immortal Fame; the opposite with full-length portrait of George Washington as a general in uniform, standing before ships and canon, with text reading, Success to AMERICA whose MILITIA is better than the Standing ARMIES / May its Citizens Emulate Soldiers and its Soldiers HEROS While Justice is the Throne to which we are bound to bend / Our Countrys Rights and Laws we ever will defend. (McCauley, no. 178).
with Masonic emblem transfer beneath the spout.
Height 8 3/8 inches.

A nearly identical example sold as Lot 368 in Christie's Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver and Prints auction, sale no. 1474, New York City, New York, 21 January 2005.

Another example with the same transfers is illustrated in Israel Sack American Furniture from the Israel Sack Collection, vol. 6, p. 1623. This pitcher later sold as Lot 76 in Nye and Company's Estate Treasures auction, Bloomfield, New Jersey, 27 October 2021, from the Collection of Mimi Adler.

Literature:

'Proscribed Patriots' transfer inventoried as no. 192 and illustrated as plate VII, p. 29 in Robert H. McCauley, Liverpool Transfer Designs on Anglo-American Pottery, Southworth-Athoensen Press: Portland, Maine, 1942.

Further inventoried as M.15 and illustrated p. 136 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.

'Success to America' transfer inventoried as no. 178 and illustrated on p. 116 in Robert H. McCauley, Liverpool Transfer Designs on Anglo-American Pottery, Southworth-Athoensen Press: Portland, Maine, 1942.