Description:
Large molded jug with v-shaped snip, straight collar, attached "7" shaped handle, body of jug is large, cylindrical, and bulbous that tapers slightly to a round base, covered all over with yellow lead glaze, decorated with painted black enamel on the edges of the upper rim, handle, and snip, the collar and the body are transfer printed decoration over the surface of the jug -- with a variety of different scenes including three Masonic images,one inscribed "UNITED FOR THE BENEFIT OF MANKIND," one is of a woman holding a cross with Masonic emblems in the background; and the other is a mason seated between two pillars topped with globes, near a beehive, and a coat of arms with three castles, a horse race, “The Archeress,” scene of a mother nursing a baby while a child reads at her feet, a scene entitled “Poor Jack” with a poem and a young couple near the ocean; an armorial device with the inscription, “THE HUSBANDMAN'S DILIGENCE PROVIDES BREAD," pastoral scenes of men herding and milking diary cows, a girl under a tree with a dog, a gothic style country house with people in the foreground, a man holding a lamb while walking with a woman, and a woman under a willow tree with the poem, "Let me O Let me..the shades repair/ My native shades their weep & ?/ She said and melting as in tears she lay/ In a soft silver stream dissolved away." All of these transfer printed are colored over the glaze in green, red, blue, and orange enamels. At the base of the jug is a border of stylized black flowers on an orange ground. Condition: the underside of the jug appears to be overfired, there is excessive bubbling of the glaze. There is a repair (restored chip) to the tip of the spout.
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