Love Not Sleep, 19 C. Sunderland Tranferware Crock with Hand-painting, Unusual Form anonymous artist but I love the silhouette

but I love the silhouette

Produced with local clay

straight across (not on the curve

This hide shows some age but is this mask is in excellent

It bears some resemblance to the birds produced by Stangl Pottery in the mid-20th century

Love Not Sleep, 19 C. Sunderland Tranferware Crock with Hand-painting, Unusual Form anonymous artist but I love the silhouetteI 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