Toby jug, (297), c.1800, probably Staffordshire, height: 30.5cm, (12in), Pratt-coloured pearlware. Verse impressed on reverse, around the handle: ‘Hollo Brother Briton / Whoever Thou be / Sit down on / That chest of/ Hand Dollors by me / And drink a health / To all sealors Bold [sic]'. Female Toby, (1456), c.1800, probably Staffordshire, height: 26.7cm, (10½in), pearlware. Decorated in high-temperature colours; traditionally known as ‘Martha Gunn’, after the Brighton bathing woman. Toby Jug, (278), c.1800, probably Staffordshire, height: 29.2cm, (11½in), pearlware. Badly fired so that enamel has peeled badly, sits on a chest moulded with a ship motif.
Clockwise: Pipe, (274), c.1800, Staffordshire or Scotland, height: 15.3cm, (6½in), pearlware. Modelled as sailor sitting on a barrel. Pipe bowl specially modelled, with a face and thistle sprigs. Two Pipes, (294 & 294A), c.1800, probably Staffordshire, each height: 64
17.8cm, (7in), pearlware. Two standing sailors fitted with real churchwarden clay pipes. Pipe, (273), c.1800, probably Staffordshire, height: 14cm, (5½in), pearlware. Decorated in high temperature colours. Wears a tricorne hat impressed, ‘JOHN BULL’ and fitted with real churchwarden clay pipe.