. Anglo-American pottery : old English china with American views, a manual for collectors . nd usually aboutsix inches in height, evidently intended as receptacles for aleor other beverages. The decorative subjects which appear on Liverpool cream-ware are varied in character. Many pieces were ornamentedwith ships and maritime emblems and were brought to thiscountry in large numbers by returning seamen. Frequentlyship-owners ordered from the Liverpool potters pieces bear-ing views of their own vessels. A pitcher of this charactershows an engraving of the ship Astrea of Wiscasset, and itis known
. Anglo-American pottery : old English china with American views, a manual for collectors . nd usually aboutsix inches in height, evidently intended as receptacles for aleor other beverages. The decorative subjects which appear on Liverpool cream-ware are varied in character. Many pieces were ornamentedwith ships and maritime emblems and were brought to thiscountry in large numbers by returning seamen. Frequentlyship-owners ordered from the Liverpool potters pieces bear-ing views of their own vessels. A pitcher of this charactershows an engraving of the ship Astrea of Wiscasset, and itis known that this vessel was built at that place in 1793 byGeneral Abiel Wood, one of the largest ship-owners at thattime in New England. Her burthen was 458 tons, and Alex-ander Askins was her first master. In 1802 she was lost atsea, and, singularly enough, the pitcher which was made forher is now in the possession of a collector of old china inEngland. Biblical designs were sometimes used as decorative subjectsby the early Liverpool potters. On a pair of tiles in the ANGLO-AMERICAN A Masonic Mug, Liverpool Ware. IO ANGLO-AMERICAN POTTERY. Mayer Museum of that city The Woman of Samaria andDavid and Goliath are represented. In the same exhibitwill be found a teapot bearing a portrait of Rev. John Wesleyon one side, and on the opposite a representation of theRepentance of St. Peter and the Good Samaritan, accom-
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