Set Reminder2024-05-23 12:00:002024-05-23 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : 19th Century Historical and Military Rarities https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/19th-century-historical-and-military-rarities-21906 The first session in this auction features military artifacts of the late 18th and early 19th centuries – the period of the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon.
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[POTTERY]. [NELSON, Lord Horatio (1758-1805), subject]. ?Admiral Nelson / Victory? Nelson Mourning Jug. [Liverpool, ca. 1805]. Transferware Mourning Jug with black and white illustrations or text. Approximately 6 x 6 ??. On one side is a portrait of Nelson surrounded with the legend, ?England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty?; the other side has a poem: ?In deaths terrific icy arms, The brave illustrious Nelson Lies; He?s free from care and wars alarms, See s [sic] not our tears nor hears our sighs?? Minor occasional soiling, else fine. A beautiful commemorative jug manufactured shortly after the news of the great Admiral?s death at Trafalgar.