ENGLISH PEARLWARE
BLACK TRANSFER-PRINTED JUG,
PROBABLY STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1815-20.
Printed on each side with a view of two ships engaged in battle, each
view signed "Bentley Wear & Bourne Engravers & Printers Shelton
Staffordshire."
One view above the inscription "THE ENTERPRIZE [SIC] AND BOXER;"
the other above the inscription "The United States and Macedonian,"
- the frigate United States commanded by Captain Decatur, achieved victory
in the short space of seventeen minutes, over the British Frigate Macedonian,
commanded by Captain Carter