Liverpool Pottery creamware documentary hand painted ship bowl England c1765-70

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£2250

Dated: 1765 to 1770 Liverpool England

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.    

Dimensions: 5 inches high

Diameter: 11.5 inches

Current Condition: Two feint ancient and stable hairlines at rim other wise in very good condition with no restoration.

Provenance: Retains the paper label of Jonathan Horne

Literature: Bernard Watney notes William Jackson in English Ceramic Circle Transactions Volume 15 1993. A similar bowl ref.125 Volume V (1985) was featured in Jonathan Horne's Exhibition catalogue.

£2250    $3037

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.

 

 

Additional information

Dimensions 5 in