Blue transfer-decorated plate with image of American Commodore MacDonnough's victory over British forces on Lake Champlain, 1814

Blue transfer-decorated plate

CERAMICS
Enoch Wood & Sons
England, Burslem
ca. 1820
refined earthenware, cobalt pigment, lead glaze
overall: 10 1/8 diam.

Blue transfer-printed plate of 'Commodore MacDonnough's Victory', shell border design around a slightly scalloped rim; shows a fleet of sailing ships at battle on Lake Champlain in September, 1814, during the War of 1812; center vessel with prominent holes in its sails; impressed maker's mark on reverse reads "Enoch Wood & Sons Burslem Warranted / Semi China"; see Library of Congress print collection for this image as an engraving by B. Tanner, full title of print: 'Macdonough's victory on Lake Champlain and defeat of the British Army at Plattsburg by Genl. Macomb, Sept. 17 1814'

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