Earthenware Nautical Objects

English pottery creamware plate of an American ship, circa 1785-1800. The circular creamware plate with a slight well is decorated with a black and w...

A remarkable Wedgwood & Co. creamware bowl with a printed British ship in the interior with hand colouring to flag and hull. The exterior with scenes of the Birth of Venus after Francois Boucher (now in the Wallace Collection) and of Neptune on his sea-chariot pulled by sea horses with a triton preceding him blowing on a conch. There is also a print of a man and women dancing as a fiddler plays. In the final panel there is also a printed poem within a rococo frame which reads: He haftes unto his native Shore, Where dwells fweet joy and reft His lovely Sufan's fmiles implore To crown and make him blest; Now all his tiols and dangers blesft; And Sufan's love remains; The honest Tar is bleft at laft, Her fmiles reward his pains This is the last stanza of a poem called the Dauntless Sailor. The song is found in The Columbian Songster Being a Large Collection of Fashionable Songs for Gentlemen and Ladies in a Series of Numbers, printed by Nathaniel Heaton. Mark: Impressed Wedgwood & Co. Provenance: Jonathan Horne, London with price tag of $2,175.00 (old label on base) Reference: A Celebration of the Sea, Rina Prentice, Page 107, 167 for a Liverpool creamware...

The pottery figures each stand on a large square base with a lower pie-crust border and trimmed in red. The figures rest against a red coloured dolphin stand...