Auction: June 13, 2021

Lot #321: Historical Liverpool Creamware Pitcher Commemorating Washington's Death

c.1800, having cream colored glaze over a pale earthenware clay and having transfer-print decoration; one side having a depiction of a memorial obelisk bearing Washington's portrait with banners reading "WASHINGTON IN GLORY / AMERICA IN TEARS"; the other side showing a map of the original American colonies and Canada surrounded by allegorical figures; a medallion below the handle reads "A MAN / without example / A PATRIOT / without reproach" and below the spout the initials "EH" within a garlanded oval above the Great Seal of the United States; on the edge of the foot to the left of the handle there is a smudged and indistinct "WASH..."; accompanied by a Kovels online appraisal printout