Enoch Wood Transfer Printed Sauce Tureen American Views

Lot: 71

Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England.
Circa 1825 - 1830.
Glazed pearlware ovular footed sauce tureen with two scroll handles to sides, domed cover, shaped ovular stand with handles to sides, and a ladle with birds head handle terminate, all transfer-printed in deep to medium blue enamel . The scene on the tureen body printed with PASSAIC FALLS / STATE OF NEW JERSEY, and the underplate with PASS IN THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS.
The tureen body and the undertray transfer-printed in cobalt blue with eagle and stylized banner, E PLURIBUS UNIM over stylized flag within clouds.
Approximate dimensions: 7 1/4 H. including the underplate the tureen and underplate both 8 W., 6 W. The ladle 8 L.
Parallels: Brooklyn Museum has an example of the same mold, accession number 60.213.189a-b. Listed in Arman1974
Arman, David Linda, Historical Staffordshire An Illustrated Check-List, Danville, Virginia, Arman Enterprises, 1974 and
Halsey, R. T. Haines, Pictures of Early New York on Dark Blue Staffordshire Pottery, New York, New York, Dover Publications.

Condition: Some kiln speckling to interior of tureen base, the mould nearly split in half to underside, obscured to the base, minor glaze irregularities to all four items. Some minor areas of wear, glaze loss, light hairlines to glaze. The ladle has some smudges to underside bowl and is in otherwise very good condition. Excellent vibrancy and clarity to the prints and to the rich cobalt glaze. Typical wear to foot.