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Vase, earthenware, standing on an oblong base, the body in the form of a circular clockface, a circular flat panel to either side surrounded by a raised band and a band of large raised beading, to the top of the body a narrow neck flaring out to a frilled lip-rim, to either side of the body twin scrolled loop handles with raised thumb-spurs; covered all over with copper lustre apart from the flat circular panels which have been left left white, one panel transfer-printed in black with a clock face with Roman numerals, a small round dial for the second hand and a further crescent-shaped dial, the hands show eighteen minutes past eight, the other panel transfer-printed in black with a scene showing a seated female figure and two children against a background of bushes, to the bottom of the scene is the inscription "Charity".