Pitcher, "The Farmers Arms"
notes: label: Description
content: This creamware pitcher features transfer print decorations on both sides. On the front is a polychromed print of an American sailing ship titled “Superb” underneath. Under the spout is a medallion containing the initials “PC” in script. The Great Seal of the United States is printed below the medallion. On the reverse is a print titled “The Farmer’s Arms” depicting a heraldic coat of arms depicting various farm implements, with a banner below that reads “In God is our Trust.” The coat of arms is flanked by a man with a scythe and a woman with a butter churn. Floral designs decorate the lip and handle of this jug. Maritime designs are especially common on English-made transfer printed creamware meant for the American market. Stock prints of ships, like the one on this example, were repeatedly used by English ceramics printers. Robert H. McCauley purchased this pitcher from Katrinka Kipper of Accord, MA on September 11, 1939 for $80.00.
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: Work
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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.63.109
label: catalog number
content: 63.109
label: accession number
content: 252565
label: collector/donor number
content: 374
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: transfer printed (overall production method/technique)
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content: polychrome (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, earthenware, refined (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 9 1/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 23.1775 cm x 16.51 cm