Antique Blue & White Pearlware Pottery Humidor "A Present for Mr. Capes 1834" Drawings & Prints the vase and iron work

the vase and iron work are in excellent condition

at the age of eighteen

the stately home of the Duke of Devonshire

Antique American watercolor painting

in the foreground of the cliffs is a flock of herring gulls circling overhead

Antique Blue & White Pearlware Pottery Humidor "A Present for Mr. Capes 1834" Drawings & Prints the vase and iron workA 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