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拍品专文
The present bowl, one of three known, was made to commemorate a ship built in Newburyport, Massachusettes for an Edinburgh merchant by Jonathan Greenleaf and his partner Thomas Cottle and launched in 1752.
A second bowl, also inscribed to Jonathan Greenleaf and previously in the collection of his great-great-grandaughter, Mrs. Henry B. Little of Newburyport, was published by John Currier in his privately printed book of 1909, History of Newburyport 1764-1909 and by Peter Benes in Old Town and the Waterside, 1986 as the frontispiece and as a color insert between pages 16 and 17.
A third bowl, made for one Thomas Cottle and also dated 1752, is also known. Published as in a private collection, Winchester, England by Michael Archer in Dated English Delftware, Tin-glazed Earthenware 1600-1800, London, 1984, no. 1135, it was acquired by noted London dealer Jonathan Horne and included in his March 1983 exhibition. In the exhibition catalogue, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Part III, March 1983, no. 58, Mr. Horne cites a bowl in the collection of The Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford as the only other known example of a bowl depicting a ship in the process of being built. This example, published by F.H. Garner and Michael Archer, English Delftware, London, 1972, pl. 91B as Bristol and dating circa 1766, is painted by a different hand beneath a border of bianco-sopra-bianco flowers. It is very different in feel to the three Liverpool examples dated 1752, two of which were unknown to Mr. Horne.
Of these three Liverpool bowls, each is painted with the same ship, title, date and interior rim decoration. Variations occur in the number of figures, their placement, the angles of the flags, etc. The painting of similar shipping bowls executed in blue and white with enamel enrichments and with similar landscape decoration on the exterior have been attributed to the hand of William Jackson. See Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-Glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1997, no. F.42 for a discussion of these bowls and the attribution to Jackson which specifically refers to the aforementioned 'Thomas Cottle Bowl' as a comparison.
Jonathan Greenleaf (1723-1807) was apprenticed at the age of seven to Edward Presbury, who owned and occupied a ship-yard in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Jonathan married Presbury's daughter Mary in 1744 and began building ships for his own account six years later. He was very active in the political life of Newburyport and of the colony of Massachusetts, holding various public offices from 1768-1792. He was a member of the Massachusetts Congress but does not seem to have represented that colony at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He did, however, build ships for the nascent Continental navy, including the frigate Hancock.
In 1769, Greenleaf is recorded as acquiring from one Woodbridge Cottle, Thomas Cottle's nephew, "one-undivided-sixth part of the warf". (John Currier, History of Newburyport, 1909, p. 208). Thomas Cottle is recorded as a shipbuilder in Haverel and in Newburyport. He is also recorded as having completed his largest and last vessel in 1752. (Cheeney, Maritime History of the Merrimac). Given the fact that Greenleaf would only have been building ships for his own account for two years by that date and that both men were given virtually identical Liverpool punch-bowls dated 1752, it is likely that these men collaborated on the building of one ship which left the Newburyport ship-yard in that year.
A second bowl, also inscribed to Jonathan Greenleaf and previously in the collection of his great-great-grandaughter, Mrs. Henry B. Little of Newburyport, was published by John Currier in his privately printed book of 1909, History of Newburyport 1764-1909 and by Peter Benes in Old Town and the Waterside, 1986 as the frontispiece and as a color insert between pages 16 and 17.
A third bowl, made for one Thomas Cottle and also dated 1752, is also known. Published as in a private collection, Winchester, England by Michael Archer in Dated English Delftware, Tin-glazed Earthenware 1600-1800, London, 1984, no. 1135, it was acquired by noted London dealer Jonathan Horne and included in his March 1983 exhibition. In the exhibition catalogue, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Part III, March 1983, no. 58, Mr. Horne cites a bowl in the collection of The Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford as the only other known example of a bowl depicting a ship in the process of being built. This example, published by F.H. Garner and Michael Archer, English Delftware, London, 1972, pl. 91B as Bristol and dating circa 1766, is painted by a different hand beneath a border of bianco-sopra-bianco flowers. It is very different in feel to the three Liverpool examples dated 1752, two of which were unknown to Mr. Horne.
Of these three Liverpool bowls, each is painted with the same ship, title, date and interior rim decoration. Variations occur in the number of figures, their placement, the angles of the flags, etc. The painting of similar shipping bowls executed in blue and white with enamel enrichments and with similar landscape decoration on the exterior have been attributed to the hand of William Jackson. See Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-Glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1997, no. F.42 for a discussion of these bowls and the attribution to Jackson which specifically refers to the aforementioned 'Thomas Cottle Bowl' as a comparison.
Jonathan Greenleaf (1723-1807) was apprenticed at the age of seven to Edward Presbury, who owned and occupied a ship-yard in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Jonathan married Presbury's daughter Mary in 1744 and began building ships for his own account six years later. He was very active in the political life of Newburyport and of the colony of Massachusetts, holding various public offices from 1768-1792. He was a member of the Massachusetts Congress but does not seem to have represented that colony at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He did, however, build ships for the nascent Continental navy, including the frigate Hancock.
In 1769, Greenleaf is recorded as acquiring from one Woodbridge Cottle, Thomas Cottle's nephew, "one-undivided-sixth part of the warf". (John Currier, History of Newburyport, 1909, p. 208). Thomas Cottle is recorded as a shipbuilder in Haverel and in Newburyport. He is also recorded as having completed his largest and last vessel in 1752. (Cheeney, Maritime History of the Merrimac). Given the fact that Greenleaf would only have been building ships for his own account for two years by that date and that both men were given virtually identical Liverpool punch-bowls dated 1752, it is likely that these men collaborated on the building of one ship which left the Newburyport ship-yard in that year.