Lot #57: Antique Matrimonial Wedding Pottery Pitcher with Queen Victoria dated 1897

Fabulous Wedding memento celebrating the wedding of Alexander and Jennie Cammeron married on June 4, 1897 in Airdrie, Alberta Canada. It has a lovely portrait of Queen Victoria surrounded with gold thistle flowers with 1837 Queen Empress 1897 underneath picture. The script is beautifully done in gold with bursts of colour in the flowers and on the Queen’s dress. It has a large handle and considering age is in very good condition. It does have crazing and mottling but picture and script in very good condition. Unusual piece for the royalty, pottery and Canadiana collectors. Measures 21.5 cms high by 12 cms at base or 8.5 inches high by 5 inches base. Interesting to note that the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria was officially celebrated on 22 June 1897 to mark the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession on 20 June 1837. Queen Victoria was the first British monarch ever to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee. Pickup category timeslot {A}