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Lot 139

A rare creamware printed plaque, circa 1799

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£800 - £1,200

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A rare creamware printed plaque, circa 1799

Probably Liverpool, of upright oval form, printed in black with George Washington after the portrait by Gilbert Stuart, within a giltwood frame, 12.5cm high excluding frame

Footnotes

This plaque was probably made to commemorate Washington's death in 1799. Another example was exhibited at the NCS Creamware and Pearlware Exhibition, 1986, illustrated in the catalogue, p.87.

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