NORTHUMBERLAND lustreware jug
Date19th century
Object number00027204
NameJug
MediumClay, glaze, ink, lustre, paper
DimensionsOverall: 188 x 238 x 168 mm, 0.8 kg
ClassificationsCommemorative artefacts
Credit LineANMM Collection
Collections
DescriptionLusterware ceramic jug with an image of the three masted barque NORTHUMBERLAND on one side and a poem on friendship on the other.
The transfer inscription ringed in flowers reads 'Friendship, love and truth, when friendship love and truth abound among a band of brothers, the cup of joy goes gaily round. Each shares the bliss of others sweet roses grace the thorny way along this vale of sorrow; the flowers that shed their leaves today shall bloom again tomorrow: how grand in age how fair in youth are holy friendship love & truth'.