Bowl
name: label: maker
content: Samuel Moore and Company
notes: label: Description
content: This transfer printed creamware bowl was made by Samuel Moore and Company of Durham, England during the early 19th century. The interior of the bowl features a print of a ship under sail flying an American flag. The exterior of the bowl features four prints on each side of bowl. A small oval portrait of George Washington is opposite a small oval portrait of Martha Washington, while a spread-winged U.S. eagle is on the other two opposing sides.
label: Description
content: This bowl is part of the McCauley collection of American themed transfer print pottery. There is no mark on the bowl 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. Porcelain 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, Durham
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Art
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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.63.148
label: catalog number
content: 63.148
label: accession number
content: 248619
label: collector/donor number
content: 41-328
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl
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: 4 13/16 in x 14 7/8 in; 12.22375 cm x 37.7825 cm