Transfer printed black designs on mug. Image of beehive and two ladies, one watering the flowers, the other strolling with a walking stick in the garden on right. On left, there is a river scene, faded canary yellow.
mugs
creamware
earthenware
transfer printing
Mug
"FLOWERS THAT NEVER FADE / INDUSTRY / From bees a lesson we might learn, / Nor their example proudly spurn,/ They never waste a single hour/But fly about from flow'r to flow'r." (printed)
MJ1970.19
Unknown
2.25 (H), 2.25 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.19
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