STAFFORDSHIRE AMERICAN HISTORICAL / VIEW TRANSFER-PRINTED CERAMIC ARTICLES, LOT OF FOUR, each having dark blue transfer scenes, comprising a teapot featuring the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (so-called) depicting a steam carriage and coach with three figures in foreground, an 8 3/4" D bowl with a sugar bowl, lacking cover, depicting Lafayette at Washington's Tomb, and a cup featuring Lafayette at Franklin's Tomb. Printed marks to underside include bowl having "TAMS ANDERSON & TAMS / WARRANTED / STAFFORDSHIRE" and various numerals. Enoch Wood & Sons, Burslem; Thomas Mayer, Stoke-on-Trent/Longport, England; and others. Bowl imported by Tams, Anderson & Tams, Philadelphia, PA. Circa 1825. 8 1/8" HOA.
Literature: Teapot parallels Larsen - American Historical Views on Staffordshire China, p. 235, #549 (not illustrated); The Armans - Historical Staffordshire, An Illustrated Check-List, p. 186, #510 and #511; The Armans - Historical Staffordshire, An Illustrated Check-List, First Supplement, p. 74, #514; Transferware Collectors Club database pattern #2364, #3005, #5978, #9218.
Provenance: Property from a Youngstown, OH estate.
Each having mostly moderate imperfections including sugar with loss of handles, bowl with crack, and teapot with some areas of restoration.