Multicolored
Masonic
Sunderland
Lustre Pitcher
Here
is a very large mid 19th century Sunderland Lustre Pitcher decorated with
three polychrome transfers. The style of decoration of the oval panels with
borders of burnt amber, surrounded by green diagonal dashes, suggests that
it's from a Tyneside pottery. Within one cartouche is a sailor drinking
to his girl. The saying reads: "I'll drink to the
Girl that I love dearly." Under the spout is the Mason's
Arms. The third transfer has all the Masonic symbols, the beehive, sun, moon,
etc., and reads: "The world's a city with many a
crooked street, And death's a market place were all men meet: If life was
merchandise which men could buy, The rich would live, the poor alone would
die." It stands 9 3/4 inches tall by 11 inches wide from
spout to handle.
