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Lot 129
Sale 2053 - Collect: American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
Oct 9, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$3,000 -
4,000
Price Realized
$1,905
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
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.