Mug
notes: label: Description
content: This creamware mug is decorated with a transfer print of Commodore Oliver H. Perry. The print depicts him is his full naval uniform facing right with the text “O. H. Perry, Esq.” over his head. Under Perry is a scroll that reads “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
label: Description
content: This mug is part of the McCauley collection of American themed transfer print pottery. There is no mark on the mug 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.63.138
label: catalog number
content: 63.138
label: accession number
content: 248619
label: collector/donor number
content: 48-376
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mug
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: monochrome, red (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: 5 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 4 3/8 in; 14.605 cm x 14.605 cm x 11.1125 cm