1800-1815
GUSN-11357
Small, full-bellied form with flared foot and applied handle. Transfer prints and inscriptions on both sides in black. One side has a mourning scene at Washington's tomb, the other is showing a three-masted British ship under full sail. Glazed cream-colored body.
pitchers (vessels)
creamware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
lead glaze
commemoratives
memorials
ships
tombs
trade (function)
Transfer Printed
Earthenware
Ship
Tomb
Memorial
Commemorative
Trade
Creamware
Pitcher
On side of the pitcher, in a transfer print is: Washington in Glory/America in Tears. The other side reads: Success to Trade.
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
England
7 1/4 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1692
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