Pick of the week: American saleroom signals the way to English creamware
Some of the rarest and most desirable of all English creamware jugs were those made for the American market. One of them, titled Signals at Portland Observatory, sold for $4400/£3600 (plus premium) at the Bourgeault-Horan auction in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The Portland Observatory was built in 1807 by Captain Lemuel Moody (1768-1845), a sea captain who …