Earthenware jug transfer-printed in brown with an ochre painted rim. 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 naval action, 'VICTORY' inscribed above. There is an inscription opposite the handle, with a naval trophy above '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 outside of the rim, and a laurel border on the inside. The moulded handle is mottled.