Mug
Burgess and Leigh
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Pottery
Measurements
100 mm (H)100 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Burslem
Order this imageCollection
Greenway, Devon
NT 120836
Summary
Ferguson 'Loving mug, earthenware (pottery), with two angular handles, transfer-printed and enameled in colour with an inscription 'Let the Wealthy and Great ...Long life and Success to the Farmer' base marked 'Farmer's Armms/BandL' for Burgess and Leigh, Staffordshire, England c 1826-89.'
Marks and inscriptions
Outside front 'GOD SPEED THE POUGH'. OUTSIDE BACK 'LET THE WEALTHY AND GREAT/ROLL IN SPLENDOUR AND STATE/I ENVY THEM NOT, I DECLARE IT/I EAT MY OWN LAMB/MY OWN CHICKENS AND HAM/I SHARE MY OWN FLEECE AND I WEAR IT/I HAVE LAWNS, I HAVE BOWERS/I HAVE FRUITS, I HAVE FLOWERS/THE LARK IS MY MORNING ALARMER/SO JOLLY BOYS NOW/HERE'S GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH/LONG LIFE AND SUCCESS TO THE/FARMER'. Wreath below above 'INDUSTRY PRODUCETH WEALTH'.
Makers and roles
Burgess and Leigh, potter