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Lot 123
Sale 2053 - Collect: American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
Oct 9, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$1,270
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
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.