An English creamware jug. One side is printed with the “Success to America” militia subject; the other shows a three-masted ship flying an American flag.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Material
- Creamware, transfer-printed and colored
- Attribution
- England, Liverpool type
- Price
- On request
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Creamware jug with a loop handle, a beak spout, and red lines at the rim and the foot. One side carries a black transfer, colored by hand, of a militia officer in a blue coat and yellow breeches, with a cannon, stacked shot, two ships, and a fifteen-star American flag. The inscription reads: “Success to AMERICA whose MILITIA is better than Standing ARMIES / May its Citizens Emulate its Soldiers And its Soldiers HEROES / While Justice is the Throne to which we’re bound to bend / Our Country’s Rights and Laws we ever will defend.” That print is McCauley no. 178, used on English creamware made for the American market in the early nineteenth century. The other side of this jug is a separate ship print. No maker’s mark was photographed, so the potter and the exact year are not established.