Earthenware jug, transfer-printed in brown, moulded with a quilted effect. On one side a portrait of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) inscribed above 'NELSON', around the portrait 'ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY' below 'Shew me my Country's Foes, the Hero cry'd,/He saw-He fought,-He conquer'd, And he di'd.' On the other side, a representation of a naval action, 'VICTORY' above. There is an inscription opposite the handle, below a naval trophy: 'HORATIO LORD VISCOUNT/NELSON/VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE./Knight of the Order of the Bath,/Duke of Bronte in Sicily/Grand Cross of the Order of Ferdi/nand and of Merit, and Knight of the imperial Order of/the Crescent', 'Copenhagen', 'Nile', 'Trafalgar'. A scrolling floral border with trophies of arms runs around the neck, with another border of laurel on the inside. There is mottled decoration on the handle which is painted with ochre edges. Another ochre line is painted around the rim.