Napoleonic interest: a rare commemorative Pratt ware jug c.1802-3

Napoleonic interest: a rare commemorative Pratt ware jug c.1802-3, each side with a profile portrait of George III and Napoleon Bonaparte each crowned with laurel leaves, a figure emblematic of Peace applied beneath the spout, all highlighted in typical palette, 22.3cm high. Illustrated: John and Griselda Lewis, Pratt Ware, p139. This jug was presumably made to celebrate the Treaty of Amiens, which ended hostilities between the French Republic and the United Kingdom on 25th March 1802. The peace was only temporary, however, and fighting resumed on 13th May 1803. This brief period in history is the only time when Napoleon was depicted in anything other than a thoroughly unfavourable light by English manufacturers.