Earl St Vincent: a creamware jug and a large mug, circa 1800-10
Printed in black with portraits of Admiral Sir John Jervis, Earl St Vincent, the jug also with satirical prints of 'JOHN BULL peppering BUONAPARTE in the FRONT and REAR' and 'JOHN BULL at DOVER' taunting 'BONEY at CALAIS', below a patriotic verse and war trophies, jug 19.5cm, mug 15.5cm high (2)
Footnotes:
John Bull peppering Napoleon was a popular cartoon by Isaac Cruickshank which also appears on a red printed mug in the British Museum (1988,0502.1). The second print is adapted from the satire by James Gillray 'John Bull offering Little Boney fair play' published by Hannah Humphrey in August 1803.

Jervis's portrait under the spout of the jug is rare and John and Jennifer May cite knowledge of only two examples, one printed in red, the other in purple. This black-printed version is a third colourway. See Commemorative Pottery (1972), p.89, fig.149.

The portrait of Jervis on the mug is signed in the print, 'Mollart Sculp / Morris Print'. Francis Morris is listed in the 1800 Staffordshire pottery directory as a 'black printer', i.e. a printer of overglaze enamels. He seemingly moved from Vale Pleasant to Shelton sometime before 1809 when he appears in Holden's Triennial Directory of Staffordshire as 'gilder, enameller, & printer of earthenware'. The same print appears on a jug, lot 37 in this sale.

Jug: In good condition save for a fine 'u-shaped' crack in the body around the upper handle terminal and another short vertical crack approximately 2.5cm long to one side of the spout. Some light brown stain has been let-in by several small kiln adhesions and a few tiny glaze chips around the inside edge of the rim. The printed decoration remains well, save for a handful of insignificant short scratches.

Mug: In good condition, save or some truly minute glaze loss to the side of the handle and some minor scratches to the glaze and enamels, which do not detract from the overall appearance of the piece.