ASSORTED AMERICAN HISTORICAL / VIEW TRANSFER-PRINTED CERAMIC ARTICLES, LOT OF FOUR, comprising an octagonal-form platter featuring mulberry/purple transfer of "THE NARROW'S / FROM / FORT HAMILTON.", as printed to underside, depicting a small military installation with figures and sheep in foreground, and three with black transfer images consisting of a copper lustre creamer featuring cartouches of "CORNWALLIS" surrendering at Yorktown, reverse cartouche with a portrait of "LA FAYETTE" flanked by angels and handle having impressed "30" to lower terminal, a creamer with eagle molded spout featuring profile depicting Admiral Dewey to one side and reverse with "FLAGSHIP OLYMPIA", and a cup featuring temperance motif "FIRM AS AN OAK" pattern depicting a shield flanked by a man and woman with flags. Additional marks to underside include impressed Royal Coat of Arms (lion and unicorn) with "OPAQUE / GRANITE / CHINA / W.R. & Co." to shield. Cook Pottery Co., Trenton, NJ; William Ridgway, Shelton, Hanley, England; and others. 19th century. 3 7/8" HOA.
Literature: Fort Hamilton: Parallels the Armans - Historical Staffordshire, An Illustrated Check-List, p. 111, #288; La Fayette creamer: The Armans - Anglo-American Ceramics Part I, p. 51, pls. 4.27/4.29; John and Baker - Old English Lustre Pottery, color illustration 50B; Transferware Collectors Club database patterns #3348, #4602, #14616.
Provenance: From the collection of Nick Routson, Phoenix, AZ.
Dewey creamer with faint base hairline; platter with restoration to area on rim; La Fayette creamer having moderate chip to foot; cup with rim having minor chip and a hairline.