Love Not Sleep, 19 C. Sunderland Tranferware Crock with Hand-painting, Unusual Form anonymous artist Just as the box attests

Just as the box attests

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

but I love the silhouette

This is not a hand-colored engraving

Produced with local clay

Love Not Sleep, 19 C. Sunderland Tranferware Crock with Hand-painting, Unusual Form anonymous artist Just as the box attestsI 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