Liverpool Patriotic Creamware Plate with American Shield Eagle

England, dated 1802, lead glazed creamware with transfer decoration and hand coloring, unmarked, featuring an patriotic spread-winged eagle with fifteen stars, with Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address delivered March 4, 1801: “Peace, Commerce and honest Friendship with all Nations. Entangling Alliances with none-" the rim decorated with exotic bird in landscape vignettes.

10 in. diameter

Private Collection of a Gentleman, Virginia

Acquired from the collection of Rob Hunter

See example in the Victoria and Albert Museum: Catalogue Collection
Pottery Porcelain Illustrating Popular British History.

Good condition; small glaze flake to the eagle's left wing (viewer's right).