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A rare Sunderland purple lustre jug, painted with two blue flags, one inscribed no impressment, t
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A rare Sunderland purple lustre jug, painted with two blue flags, one inscribed no impressment, the other no Monopoly flanking the inscription W B Stewart Freeman Blue Ever true Now in Wilks a Champion view All unite Nobly fight Nor till death desert your right, 18cm h, c1820 Literature: Two jugs in the Collection of Sunderland Museum attributed to the 'Garrison' Pottery of Dixon & Co bear inscriptions in the same distinctive style of lettering seen on the present example; see Baker (JC), Sunderland Pottery, Sunderland 1984, Nos 78 & 85. The practice of impressment, whereby seafaers were 'press-ganged' into naval service was abandoned after about 1815. ++Rim restored some slight wear to the lustre around the rim and on the handle
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A rare Sunderland purple lustre jug, painted with two blue flags, one inscribed no impressment, the other no Monopoly flanking the inscription W B Stewart Freeman Blue Ever true Now in Wilks a Champion view All unite Nobly fight Nor till death desert your right, 18cm h, c1820 Literature: Two jugs in the Collection of Sunderland Museum attributed to the 'Garrison' Pottery of Dixon & Co bear inscriptions in the same distinctive style of lettering seen on the present example; see Baker (JC), Sunderland Pottery, Sunderland 1984, Nos 78 & 85. The practice of impressment, whereby seafaers were 'press-ganged' into naval service was abandoned after about 1815. ++Rim restored some slight wear to the lustre around the rim and on the handle
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