Description
The creamware pottery documentary bowl is decorated with a hand-painted sailing ship (artist probably William Jackson) in black and highlighted with blue, green, yellow, and red under sail on a green sea. The inscription reads ” SUCCESS TO THE PROVIDENCE- CAPT. WILLIAM DABNAHAM. The rim is finely painted with a scrolling green border with red flower heads. The outside of the bowl features four black and white underglaze Sadlers and Green prints of Neptune, Venus, and two sailors’ punch parties.
Captain William Dabnaham sailed from Yarmouth Port in the mid-18th century and, later, Portsmouth, and was under his command until 1787. He died in Yarmouth at the age of 80 in 1799.