A Liverpool Transfer-Printed Creamware 'John Adams' Pitcher

Shelton Group, England, Late 18th Century

one side with bust-length portrait of John Adams as president, surmounted by Seal of the United States; the opposite 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.
with 'Success to America' transfer beneath the spout.
Height 7 1/4 inches.

Literature:

Adams portrait inventoried as A.8 and illustrated p. 62 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 from the Shelton Group inventoried as L.24 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 'John Adams' Pitcher

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