A good pearlware jug c.1800

A good pearlware jug c.1800, printed by Thomas Fletcher & Co. of Shelton in dark brown monochrome, one side with a young couple in a blacksmith's forge, titled 'Gretna Green or the Red Hot Marriage', the reverse with a family seated on a settle, titled 'Conjugal Felicity', signed in the print 'Thos. Fletcher & Co Shelton', below the spout printed with putti at play, 21.7cm.

Provenance: the Godden Reference Collection.

Cf. David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, p.42 for details of Thomas Fletcher.