In collecting, the mustard pot bursts on the horizon about the year 1760. Fitted with blue glass liners, they ran in triumphant progress with the sugar pails, and cream pails, through a period of thirty to thirty-five years, offering the choicest specimens of cut and pierced work, with festoons and with medallions in classic style, and decorated with exquisite chasing.
OLD SHEFFIELD PLATED MUSTARD POTS.
1775. With bar piercing: Medallions and festoons. Circular base; dome lid. Handle of form used on flagons.
(In the collection of B. B. Harrison, Esq.)
1785. Oval shape. Handle with Prince of Wales's feathers as thumb-piece. Medallion star pierced. Threaded rim.
(In the collection of B. B. Harrison, Esq.)
1785. Round in shape on collette foot; scroll piercing. Circular lid surmounted by knob.