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Winter View of Pittsfield
Artist/Culture
Staffordshire Potteries
(British, founded 1720)
Date19th century
Mediumlead-glazed earthenware with transfer-printed decoration
Dimensions26 x 3.8 cm (10 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LineBequest of Grenville H. Norcross
Terms
Object number1937.30
DescriptionSoup plate. Winter view of Pittsfield. Design in dark and light blue. Mark on back in blue: Winter view of Pittsfield Mass, on ribands; below a spread eagle: Clews. Stamped mark: Warrented Staffordshire Clews in a circle around a crown.Label TextThe English county of Staffordshire had been the center of production for transfer print pottery since the mid-eighteenth century. Seeking to repair damaged trade relations with the United States following the War of 1812, British potteries appealed to growing American nationalism with American-themed earthenware. Such items gained popularity among American consumers throughout much of the early 1800s and typically depicted civic buildings and landscapes decorated with ornamental borders. American view pottery reveals the interconnectedness of the public and the domestic in the early Republic, stressing that national pride could be consumed in all spheres of American life in the nineteenth century.ProvenanceGrenville H. Norcross, Boston, MA
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