Love Not Sleep, 19 C. Sunderland Tranferware Crock with Hand-painting, Unusual Form anonymous artist highlighting hand-drawn pages

highlighting hand-drawn pages

I got distracted for a minute while testing it but believe it measures 4 minutes

but with the first name painted over in black so only the last name

Produced with local clay

Just as the box attests

Love Not Sleep, 19 C. Sunderland Tranferware Crock with Hand-painting, Unusual Form anonymous artist highlighting hand-drawn pagesI look at a fair bit of earlyish 19th c. transferware, but it's a rare occasion to come across a transferware pot crock like this one. I am 99% certain this one was made by Sunderland, England, and I believe once has a lid, long gone. The short verse on one side is pretty unusual too I read it as basically saying 'do not be lazy!' On the flip side is a blindfolded man flanked by two women and floundering around as if in a game of blind mans bluff and