- Titles Pitcher (Descriptive)
- Artist Probably, Staffordshire, England
- Medium lead-glazed earthenware (creamware) with printed and polychrome enamel decoration and pink lustre
- Dimensions 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 x 5 1/4 in. (14 x 18.7 x 13.3 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Bayard Shields Tynes and Carolyn Dickinson Tynes, AFI.21.2010
- Work Type pitcher
- Classification Containers
- Signature none
- Marks none
- Inscription On one side: Tis a very world for to live in, To lend or to spend or to give in; But to beg or to borrow or get a mans own. Tis the very worst world that ever was known. On other side: The sails unfurl; let the billows curl. The North wind bleak we brave; And strangers to fear, our wild course steer, Thro' the foam of the wintry wave. Let the hurricane howl, be it fair or foul; Our ardour nought can check; On the giddy Top-mast we sing to the blast, Or dance on the sea-wash'd deck.