“REST IN HEAVEN.
“There is an hour of peaceful rest
To mourning wanderers given;
There’s a tear for souls distrest,
A balm for every wounded breast—
’Tis found above in Heaven.”
In my own collection is another example of this white ware with purple “lustre-splash” ornament. On one side is an engraving, in an oval, of the same bridge; and around the oval the inscription—“A West View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear; built by R. Burdon, Esq. Span, 236 feet; height, 100 feet. Begun, 24 Sept., 1795. Opened, 9 Aug., 1796.” On the other side, a ship in full sail. Another example is a punch-bowl. Like the others, it is decorated with purple lustre, and with views, ships, and verses in transfer-printing. On the bottom, inside, is a similar view of the Wear bridge to the one just described, in an oval, with the same inscription. The inside is divided into three compartments, in one of which is a ship in full sail, with the words—
“May Peace and Plenty
On our nation smile,
And Trade and Commerce
Bless the British Isle.”
in another, in a border of flowers, surmounted by a small ship, is this verse:—
“Glide on, my bark, the summer’s tide
Is gently flowing by thy side;
Around thy prow the waters bright,
In circling rounds of broken light,
Are glittering as if ocean gave
Her countless gems to deck the wave.”
and on the third, is a similar border:—