OLD SPODE BLUE PRINTED WARE.
"Tower pattern."
(In the collection of Mrs. Herman Liebstein.)
"The Sailor's Farewell and Return" are rather frequent, and Charles Dibdin's verses appear on some of these jugs and mugs. There is one interesting jug in the form of a sailor seated on a chest, coloured earthenware about 1770, with a breezy inscription, "Hullo, Brother Briton, whoever Thou be, Sit down on that chest of Hard Dollars by me, and drink a health to all sailors bold."
Another cream-ware jug, partly printed and touched by colour representing a man-of-war towing a frigate, has the inscription:
"A sailor's life's a pleasant life;
He freely roams from shore to shore,
In every port he finds a wife,
What can a sailor wish for more?"
A red earthenware mug with white slip may be mentioned here as having a characteristic motto:
"From rocks and sands and barren lands