Description
A very rare creamware pottery pitcher with various underglaze transfer prints.
The most significant relate to King George 111 whose mental illness was of great concern to the British proletariat. The pitcher also carries a print of Toby Phillpott, England’s famous drunk and inspiration for Toby Jugs.Reference is also made to Woollen manufacture and navigation and there is a rather charming image of the King and Queen Charlotte with the verse “when you see this remember me etc.”
There is a heartfelt verse relating to King George’s mental illness which was cause for concern in Britain. It has since been suggested that he suffered from the blood disease porphyria. After a the King’s final relapse in 1810, a regency was established, and George III’s eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, ruled as Prince Regent. On George III’s death, the Prince Regent succeeded his father as George IV.