Figure 19 Pitcher, attributed to the Herculaneum Pottery, Liverpool, ca. 1800. Creamware. H. 8 1/2". In this reproduction of An Emblem of America, first published in 1799, a central figure holds an American flag. At left are two Indians and at right are portrait medallions of Christopher Columbus, Americus, Sir Walter Raleigh, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, and one unidentified person. On the reverse is a ship and cannon. Samuel Snowden, editor of the Alexandria Gazette, owned this patriotic piece.
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