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The couple married in 1891 and <i>Sweet Nell</i> was the first of several romantic-historical dramas with which they became indelibly associated. Although they toured extensively, they also had annual six-month seasons from 1905 until 1913 at the New Theatre. Fred Terry's great-nephew Sir John Gielgud once recalled that Terry and Neilson ‘took the theatre dreadfully seriously. This made them extremely good in rubbish. They performed in very fustian plays’.\r\n\r\nParrott & Company was established by Arthur William Parrott and his brother Charles Henry Parrott in about 1921 in the Albert Street Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.  It was amalgamated with Burgess and Leigh at the beginning  of World War Two. Charles retired and moved to Ilfracombe but Arthur continued in the business.","physicalDescription":"Cream jug with pie-crust shaped rim and lip, decorated with a blue line and a decorative blue line on the handle, the decorative finial of which is shaded in blue.  The body of the vase is decorated with a transfer design of a scene from the play <i>Sweet Nell of Old Drury</i>, showing on one side Nell Gwynn curtseying to King Charles II and on the other side a smaller image of Charles II sitting at a table with Nell Gwynn and another character standing at the table. 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