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about 1790–1810
Height: 10 in. (25.4 cm.)
Creamware with transfer-printed decoration
Classification: Ceramics
Culture: English, possibly Liverpool
Accession number: 2012.32
Location: C. Kevin and G. Barrie Landry Gallery (Home in the New Nation)
Description: Creamware pitcher with transfer-printed decoration. One side depicts Franklin, Liberty, and a map of the United States, with the other side showing mottoes: "Union to the People of America" and "Civil and Religious Liberty to all Mankind." The front showing the motto: "No toil is pain when Love's the Gain."
Provenance/Ownership History: May 17, 2008, anonymous sale, American History Auctions, Rancho Santa Fe, CA, lot 2464, to Timothy Phillips, Cambridge, MA; 2012, gift of Timothy Phillips to the MFA. (Accession Date: February, 29, 2012)
Gift of Timothy Phillips in memory of Thomas F. Phillips, Jr.