English and European Ceramics and Glass - 06 Mar 2012

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A rare pearlware commemorative jug of Napoleonic interest c.1803

£200 - £300 £250

A rare pearlware commemorative jug of Napoleonic interest c.1803, printed and painted with a Highland soldier holding Napoleon like a set of bagpipes, titled 'An Old Performer playing a new Instrument or one of the 42nd touching the Invincible', the reverse with two soldiers titled 'One of the 71st taking a French Officer prisoner in Portugal', beneath the spout a lady and two children in a cartouche surmounted by two doves, some wear, a little restoration to the spout, 20.5cm. The print on this jug comes from an 1803 cartoon by S W Fores, and commemorates the Battle of Alexandria of 1801 when the Royal Highland Regiment captured the standard of Napoleon's 'Invincibles'.

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