Antique "Bank of The United States, Philadelphia" Blue Staffordshire Plate by Stubbs, 1824-1829

Presented is an antique "Bank of The United States, Philadelphia" transferware plate, circa 1824-29. Created in Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, England, by the potter Joseph Stubbs, the plate was designed expressly for an American market.  Joseph Stubbs started working as a potter in Longport, Staffordshire in 1790, specializing in earthenware. From 1816 to 1817, he established a short-lived pottery partnership with John Taylor. During this time, Stubbs traveled to America to set up their earthenware export network with sellers, in Boston first with the company Swift & Andrews, and then in Philadelphia. Despite the dissolution of his pottery partnership with John Taylor in 1817, Stubbs continued in the business and was advertising his Staffordshire earthenware in New York by 1820. Returning to Longport in early 1822, Stubbs started a new company, Stubbs & Kent, with a younger partner Thomas Kent in September of that same year. Stubbs worked as the primary potter and Kent moved t