Collection Highlights
Physician's saddlebags w/bottles & bundles
1800-1850
1954.11
Leather, metal, glass, paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Pitcher: Bonaparte Dethron'd April 1st 1814
Object name
Pitcher: Bonaparte Dethron'd April 1st 1814
Date
1814-1815
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 6 7/8 x 6 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. ( 17.5 x 17.5 x 14.6 cm )
Description
Molded pearlware pitcher with broken scroll handle and a caricature scene transfer printed in black with enamel highlights and hand coloring in green, gray, blue, red-brown, and yellow; brown bands on rim, spout, neck, foot, and decorations on handle; the view shows groups of people in different costume speaking to each other with inscribed quotation balloons.
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Jean Morron and Mr. and Mrs. L.R. Burch in memory of John R. Morron and Belle G. Morron
Object Number
1951.130
Marks
printed: in black on neck: "BONAPARTE DETHRONED APRIL 1ST 1814"
printed: in black in lower left: "Engrave"
printed: within view: "Oh destitute Boney/ Where are you now" "Down with Boney, galloping Boney, where are you now" "Where is he going to " "To Elba" "What says con/ now ch/ Boney" "Oh Cursed Ambition What/hast thou brought me/ to Now." "Your most/ O be [?] sir." "Why to me come, come/ along thou hast been/ a most dutyful [sic]/child" "Where you are one of those/ confined under the/ gripes of old /Boney" "Yes sir, about two years ago/ I weigh 20 stone &/ you see what I am/ reduced to" "Be gone dull cane"
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
