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Lot 128
Sale 2053 - Collect: American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
Oct 9, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$700 -
900
Price Realized
$699
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Lot Description
A Liverpool Transfer-Printed Creamware 'First in War, First in Peace / By Virtue and Valour' Pitcher
Herculaneum Pottery, England, Early 19th Century
one side with Washington's tomb and text reading, First in War / First in Peace / First in Fame / First in Virtue / Born 1732 Died 1799 and linked chain of thirteen states, with Kentucky substituted for Rhode Island; the opposite with a full-length Washington standing on a lion, symbolizing British defeat during the American Revolution, and text reading, By virtue and valour, we have freed our country, extended our commerce, and laid the foundations of a great empire.
Height 7 1/8 inches.




