Antique Blue & White Pearlware Pottery Humidor "A Present for Mr. Capes 1834" Drawings & Prints cityscapes

cityscapes

the blue ground decorated with scrolling gilded foliate

writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

in the foreground of the cliffs is a flock of herring gulls circling overhead

Antique Blue & White Pearlware Pottery Humidor "A Present for Mr. Capes 1834" Drawings & Prints cityscapesA very rare dated & inscribed William IV period Pearlware blue & white pottery humidor tobacco jar & cover, 1834. The jar with a pronounced dome or bell shaped cover mounted with an acorn shaped finial, both the cover & base are finely decorated with boats on a river within a landscape with castle ruins. The jar has a painted dedication to the front in black lettering, with the legend; "A Present to Mr. Capes 1834". It is rather rare to have such a