Collection Highlights
Cake board
1825-1835
1937.1562
Wood
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Pitcher
Object name
Pitcher
Date
ca. 1804
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 9 1/8 x 9 x 7 1/4 in. ( 23.2 x 22.9 x 18.4 cm )
Description
Molded creamware pitcher with applied strap handle printed with medallion, with trumpet flower border, enclosing figure of man in uniform with cannon, ships, laborers behind and on other side view of sailing ship with American flag; printed black with overglaze green, red, yellow, and blue enamels undr spout: spread eagle with shield, clutching arrows and laurel branch.
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number
1952.143
Marks
printed: on side: "SUCCESS TO AMERICA WHOSE MILITIA (illeg.) THAN STANDING ARMIES/ MAY IT'S CITZENS EMULATE SOLDIERS HEROES/ WHILE JUSTICE IS TEH THRONE TO WHCIH WE ARE BOUND TO BEND/ OUR COUNTRY'S RIGHTS AND LAWS WE EVER WILL DEFEND."
printed: under spout: "E PLURIBUS UNUM (on ribbon in eagle's beak)" "PEACE. COMMERCE. AND HONEST FRIENDSHIP WITH ALL NATIONS ENTANGLING ALLIANCES WITH NONE_ JEFFERSON/ ANNO DOMINI 1804."
Gallery Label
This pitcher was also known as a Liverpool jug.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
