Chats on English China

by Arthur Hayden

Each look gives joy, each kiss is sweet,

But wed, how crabb’d and cross they grow

Turn upside down and you will know.”

OLD LIVERPOOL JUG (7¹⁄₄ IN. HIGH).

(Transfer-printed in black.)

Landscape and Heads entitled “Courtship and Matrimony.”

From the Collection of Capt. H. F. Maclean.

We reproduce as a headpiece two exquisitely black printed Liverpool tiles. It is true they are badly damaged, but their quaint designs were worth the preserving. The one with the gallant sportsman firing at a deer at very close range is queerly out of perspective. The other tile is a typically English rural scene, and pity it is that more of our rustic scenery has not found its way to our national china.