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

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A very rare dated & inscribed William IV period Pearlware blue & white pottery humidor/ tobacco jar & cover, 1834.
… Read more A 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 jar with both a date & name of the owner.
Condition is excellent, there is no damage or repair, a rare documentary pearlware jar & cover dated 1834.
Pearlware was a type of pottery most likley invented in Staffordshire in the late 1770s, with a slightly bluey white glaze on a white body. Josiah Wedgwood in 1779 was credited with its creation, however current thinking is that is was invented by Staffordshire potters just a few years earlier. See less