Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A Staffordshire commemorative lustre jug, dated 1813, printed and coloured with satirical prints of John Bull challenging Bonaparte, the reverse with 'One of the 71st taking a French office prisoner in Portugal', beneath the spout with a drinking stanza and inscribed 'John & Elizabeth Reeves 1813', reserved on a yellow ground with silver lustre bands, some restoration, 20.5cm.

Provenance: Woolley and Wallis, 26th February 2003.

Bonaparte's speech bubble in the first cartoon makes reference to having 'obtained the Crown', which occurred on 18th May 1804. The 71st (Glasgow Highland) Regiment of Foot saw action in the British victory over the French at the Battle of Vimiera in Portugal on 21st August 1808. They returned to the Peninsula in 1810 before finally driving the French out of Portugal the following year.