Patriotic Liverpool Creamware Pitcher with Maritime Scenes

British, late 18th century, lead glazed creamware with transfer and gilt, featuring prints of ship building to one side and containing a poetic stanza drawn from Robert Treat Paine Junior’s song Adams and Liberty, “Our
mountains are covered with imperial oak, Whose roots like our liberties ages have nourished / but long ere our nation submits to the yoke, Not a tree shall be left on the field where it flourish’d / Should invasion impend Every grove would descend, from the Hill tops they shaded our shores to defend / for ne’er shall the sons of Columbia / be slaves, While the Earth bears a plant or the Sea Rolls its waves.” The opposite side commemorating American virtues of "Liberty" and "Independence", decorated with a laurel cartouche and American coat of Arms with patriotic surrounding with patriotic verse: "As he tills your rich glebe, the old peasant shall tell / While his bosom with Liberty glows/ How your Warren Expired__how Montgomery fell / and how WASHINGTON humbled your foes."

8 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 6 in.

Private Collection of a Gentleman, Virginia

Acquired from the Collection of Robert Hunter

Rubbing and loss to gilt. Small chip to foot rim edge and spout edge; some staining to interior; area of discoloration or possible repair near the transfer "Independence" banner.