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<\/a><\/p>\nThis jug with similar form and decoration shows what the handle on my jug would have looked like with its original handle intact.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
This small pottery “Dutch” shape jug, decorated with black transfer prints and verses of the popular Sailors Farewell, was made in Sunderland, England, in the early to middle 1800s. Standing 6″ tall, it is embellished with polychrome overglaze washes and pink lustre accents. The front and rim have floral prints and the reverse side is decorated with a black transfer print of the poem A Birth-Day Thought,\u00a0written in 1809 by\u00a0Charles Lamb (1775-1834):<\/p>\n
I envy no one’s birth or fame,
\nTheir titles, train, or dress;
\nNor has my pride e’er stretched its aim
\nBeyond what I possess.<\/p>\n
I ask and wish not to appear
\nMore beauteous, rich, or gay:
\nLord, make me wiser every year,
\nAnd better every day.<\/p>\n
Over one hundred years ago when the jug was dropped, resulting in the loss of the original loop handle, it was taken to a tinker who made a metal replacement. The owner must not have liked the incongruity of the raw metal handle strapped to the delicate ceramic jug, so the handle was painted in copper tones, to help ease the offensive blight.<\/p>\n
This jug with similar form and decoration shows what the handle on my jug would have looked like with its original handle intact.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n