A Liverpool Transfer-Printed Creamware Punch Bowl with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin

Herculaneum or Wedgwood Pottery, England, 19th Century

exterior rim with four transfer images, comprising a portrait of John Adams, a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, a scene of a fisherman with a windmill, and a scene of a huntsman with his dog in the countryside.
interior with poetic verse reading, As he tills your rich glebe, the old peasant shall tell / While his bosom with Liberty glows / How your WARREN expired __ how MONTGOMERY fell / And how WASHINGTON humbled your foes, with Liberty cap and flag, the inner rim decorated with various symbols of science, war, and industry.
Height 4 1/2 x diameter 10 inches.

Literature:

Franklin portrait inventoried as F.7 and illustrated p. 95 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.

Washington portrait inventoried as W.5 and illustrated p. 195 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.

Verse transfer inventoried as L.23 and illustrated p. 130 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.

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A Liverpool Transfer-Printed Creamware Punch Bowl with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin

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