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Pot-lid, earthenware, circular shape with convex top, the underside of the lid and the flange obscured by the frame; the upperside of the lid decorated with an underglaze polychrome transfer-print of 'Fording the Stream' (although this title is not recorded on the lid), showing a rustic scene with in the foreground a female figure, donkey and goats crossing a stream while a male figure sits on the bank, in the background a tumbledown cottage and a figure on a brige, the initials 'J.A.' can just be made out on a stone to the lower right-hand side of the print, the scene enclosed by a narrow circular dotted border, which is mostly obscured by the frame, a brownish tinge to the glaze. The glaze crazed. The pot-lid mounted for display in a close-fitting circular wooden frame painted black, a circular piece of torn brown paper is stuck across the bottom of the frame.