Pitcher: American Patriots

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Pitcher: American Patriots

Place of OriginLiverpool, Merseyside, England

Date1804

Dimensions10 in. (25.4 cm)

Mediumearthenware / creamware

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1970.308

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 23A, New Media

Collections

Decorative Arts

Label TextGeorge Washington’s death in 1799 prompted an extended period of national mourning. Many commemorative objects were produced expressing patriotic sentiments and memorializing the new nation’s first president. This pitcher, produced in Liverpool, England, features Washington’s tomb flanked by portraits of “the proscribed patriots of America, Samuel Adams and John Hancock.” An inscription scrolling around the men reads, “Columbia’s [America’s] Sons inspired by Freedom’s Flame live in the Annals of immortal Fame.” The reverse of the pitcher features an American militiaman with the stars and stripes.