Sunderland China Jug circa 1786-1850

Classification:- Jug

On left side:-

The verse Friendship, Love and Truth in floral border.

When Friendship Love & Truth abound

Among a band of brothers

The cup of joy goes gently round

Each shares the bliss of others

Sweet roses grace the thorny way

Along this vale of sorrow

The flowers that shed their leaves today

Shall bloom again tomorrow

How grand in age how fair in youth

Are holy Friendship Love & Truth

In centre under spout:-

Verse in floral border

"Let Masonry from Pole to Pole

Her sacred laws expand,

Far as the mighty waters roll,

To wash remotest land:

That virtue has not left mankind,

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