Dimensions 7 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (19.7 x 21.6 x 14 cm)
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.1175.2011
Marks On the underside printed in black, the factory mark of SHREVE CRUMP & LOWE. INC
BOSTON with a crest device and the text THIS LIVERPOOL JUG RE-INTRODUCED BY SHREVE, CRUMP & LOW COMPANY IS A REPRODUCTION OF AN ORIGINAL IN THE PEABODY MUSEUM, SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, also the round WEDGWOOD
OF ETRURIA & BARLASTON mark and MADE IN ENGLAND with the round backstamp of the Wedgwood design studio ENGRAVED BY THE WEDGWOOD STUDIOS, with the handwritten number 1578
Inscription On one side in a wreath, "Success to the Crooked but Interesting Town of Boston" and on the other in a like wreath a poem by Sir Thomas Moore reading, "I knew by the smoke that so gracelly curl'd / Above the green elms that a cottage was near. / And I said if there's peace to be found in the world, / The heart that is humble might hope for it here. / Ev'ry leaf was at rest, and I heard not a sound. / But the wood-pecker tapping the hollow beechtree / And here in this lone little cot (I ex-claim'd.) / With a maiden attractive to heart and to eye, / Who would blush when I prais'd her, and weep if I blam'd. / How blest could I live and how calm could I die / Ev'ry leaf was at rest & c."
Provenance Shreve, Crump & Low, Inc. (est. 1796), Boston, Massachusetts; purchased in 1958 by Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1902-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania; by descent to their daughter Iris Buten Newman (born 1936), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [see note 1]; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2011
1. The jug was housed at the Buten Museum of Wedgwood until 1988 when it was transferred to the Nassau County Museums, Sands Point, Long Island, New York on long-term loan. In 2008 it was transferred to the Birmingham Museum of Art
