Description:
Baluster-shaped jug of a small size (2-3 cups), applied strap handle, and pointed snip or spout, jug has transfer printed (bat or cold printed) design on the sides, one side is the "FREE MASONS ARMS" and the other is a lover's poem; the Freemason's Arms has a man in an apron seated near a beehive, a sunburst, a pair of pillars, candlesticks, mason's tools, a coat of arms with three turreted castles, and a moon face; the inscription reads: "The graces and virtues united,/ Regard us with fond admiration;/Beholding their work so completed,/ In forming the heart of a Mason." the other side has a circle of a geometric design with roundels of hearts, arrows, a quiver, and reads: "Art thou not dear unto my Heart/ Oh search that Heart and see/ And from my Bosom tear the part/ That beats not true to thee/ But to this Bottom thou art dear/ More dear then tongue can tell/ And if fault is cherish'd there/ Tis loving thee two well" and a paper label on the bottom reads, "1048." Condition: crackled glaze and staining in crazing, small chips off the rim in two places, and glaze roughness on the spout.
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