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Description: | Artist: uncertain, factory; Date(s): circa 1855; Classification(s): lead-glazed earthenware, jug, throwing, white earthenware, printed in black, and painted in enamels, and pink lustre; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928, Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest [C.1089-1928]
Description: White earthenware printed in black and painted in enamels and pink lustre. Decorated with three reserves in a lustred ground. On the front is a ship flanked by a sailor and Hope with an anchor; on each side, a gar?land enclosing a verse: ?This world is a good one to live in\To lend, to spend, to buy, or give in\But to beg, borrow, or get a mans own\It is such a world as never was known?, and ?We Sailors are born for all Weathers\Great Guns let them blow high blow low\Our duty keeps us to our Tethers\And where the Gale drives we must go.? | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | lead-glazed earthenware uncertain jug | Temporal: | name=mid 19th century; start=1855; end=1855 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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