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Flower pot, earthenware, inset base within a flattened-off foot-rim, a round hole to the centre of the base, cylindrical flaring sides, thickly rounded everted lip-rim; transfer-printed in blue with to one side of the exterior body a scene showing the entrance to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with two railway tracks emerging from beneath a high archway with twin crenellated towers above, on the tracks are two small railway engines, numerous figures stand around, high walls to either side of the scene, above the scene is the inscription, "ENTRANCE TO THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER / RAILWAY", to the other side of the body is a scene showing an early railway train with one open carriage containing passengers and one goods wagon stacked with bales and barrels, in the background a rural landscape, border to the lip-rim of alternating floral sprays and scrolls enclosing diaper panels. The foot-rim chipped.