Pitcher, "Commodore Perry"
notes: label: Description
content: This creamware pitcher is decorated with an image of Oliver Hazard Perry, famous for his defeat of a British naval squadron at the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. “Commodore Perry” is written above the portrait, with a ribbon below “We have met the enemy and they are ours!” Below that, Perry has been granted the title “Hero of the Lakes.” On the reverse of the jug is a print of an American frigate. The image of Perry is based on an engraving by Philadelphian George Delleker, c.1813.
label: Description
content: This pitcher is part of the McCauley collection of American themed transfer print pottery. There is no mark on the pitcher to tell us who made it, but it is characteristic of wares made in large volume for the American market in both Staffordshire and Liverpool between 1790 and 1820. Pitchers of this shape, with a cream colored glaze over a pale earthenware clay, known as Liverpool type, were the most common vessels to feature transfer prints with subjects commemorating events and significant figures in the early decades of United States’ history. Notwithstanding the tense relationship between Britain and America, Liverpool and Staffordshire printers and potters seized the commercial opportunity offered them in the production of transfer printed earthenwares celebrating the heroes, the military victories, and the virtues of the young republic, and frequently all of these things at once.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Liverpool
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Military
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: McCauley Liverpool Pottery
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert H. McCauley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.63.173
label: catalog number
content: 63.173
label: accession number
content: 252565
label: collector/donor number
content: 377
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: monochrome, black (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, earthenware, refined (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: transfer printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 7 1/16 in x 5 in; 16.51 cm x 17.93875 cm x 12.7 cm