Rare Liverpool Gilt Creamware Pitcher, Washington and The Farmers Arms

British, circa 1800, lead glazed creamware with Americana commemorative transfer and neoclassical style gilt decoration, inscribed “Teoder Ham” in gilt beneath the spout, obverse featuring a portrait of George Washington with Fifteen States, the reverse with “The Farmers Arms”; further research is needed to determine who "Teoder (Theodore) Ham" might be and whether it was a custom commissioned work for this individual.

7 x 7 1/4 x 5 in.

Private Collection of a Gentleman, Virginia

For a similar example, see David Arman's reference, Anglo-American Ceramics, Part 1 , (1998), W. 29 and W. 34, pages 202, and 204.

Similar transfer printed jugs are in the Winterthur and
the Smithsonian Collections.

Small chip to spout; tight 1.5 inch hairline to the upper rim; scattered rubbing to the gilt; age toning to the handle.