Love Not Sleep, 19 C. Sunderland Tranferware Crock with Hand-painting, Unusual Form dramatic Nat King Cole and Jimmy

Nat King Cole and Jimmy Durante

and to turn the clown's hand-painted head upside down if desired

Good overall condition--a little staining around the rims (I have not cleaned with bleach

his focus was on the Redwood forests and hills

and shining rather like liquid gold in the light

Love Not Sleep, 19 C. Sunderland Tranferware Crock with Hand-painting, Unusual Form dramatic Nat King Cole and JimmyI look at a fair bit of earlyish 19th c. transferware, but it's a rare occasion to come across a transferware pot crock like this one. I am 99% certain this one was made by Sunderland, England, and I believe once has a lid, long gone. The short verse on one side is pretty unusual too I read it as basically saying 'do not be lazy!' On the flip side is a blindfolded man flanked by two women and floundering around as if in a game of blind mans bluff and