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Pot-lid, earthenware, circular shape with convex top, the flange and underside of the lid obscured by the frame; the upperside of the lid decorated with an underglaze polychrome transfer-print of 'The Fisher Boy' (although this title is not recorded on the lid), showing a coastal scene with the figure of a young boy seated on a rock and fishing in the sea, a basket and several dead fish lie besides him on the rock, any border which may enclose the print is obscured by the frame. The glaze crazed. The pot-lid mounted for display in a close-fitting circular wooden frame painted black, a circular piece of torn brown card is stuck across the bottom of the frame.