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Jug, earthenware, standing on a rounded spreading foot-rim, globular body, cylindrical neck, beak spout with moulded underside, ridged loop handle; transfer-printed in black and overpainted in red and green enamels with to the front of the exterior body a figure clad in flowing robes resting on an anchor, to one side of the exterior body a scene showing a high iron bridge crossing a river with busy shipping, on a rectangular panel below the scene is the inscription "A West VIEW of the IRON BRIDGE over the WEAR / under the Patronage of R. BURDON Esqr. MP / Span 230 feet ht 100 DIXON & Co Sunderland 1813 Cast 213 tons Wt 46 (indecipherable)", to the other side of the exterior body is the inscription "SWIFTLY SEE EACH MOMENT FLIES, / SEE AND LEARN BE TIMELY WISE, / EVERY MOMENT SHORTENS DAY, / EVERY PULSE BEATS LIFE AWAY, / THUS THY EVERY HEAVING BREATH, / WAFTS THEE ON TO CERTAIN DEATH, / SEIZE THE MOMENTS AS THEY FLY, / KNOW TO LIVE AND LEARN TO DIE" enclosed within a wreath of flowers and foliage, the rest of the exterior body decorated with squiggling pink lustre lines, three pink lustre bands around the exterior neck, the underside of the spout highlighted with pink lustre, a pink lustre band around the interior lip-rim and spout, a pink lustre stripe down the handle. The spout chipped.