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Cylindrical, with two loop handles. From the base of the handles a ridge in high relief circumscribes the pot; this is intersected half way on each side by a hollow vertical band of rectangular section ending above in a spout-like projection and communicating with the bottom of the inside of the posset pot. 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D. Seagrim of Tuffi Meade, Lavant, Chichester, the bowl of which was almost identical to this one and almost certainly by the same hand, though most of the yellow lead glaze had flaked away. The cover, which had three lugs on the underside and was surmounted by a figure of a fiddler and his dog, had the glaze almost intact, except for two key points of the inscription  which had been chipped off, apparently with a chisel-like instrument. The inscription ran: Play up Jack and then you shall drink. Come sit a down and merry be and think my Master comfort be. Give to poor fiddler more drink more drink, o give to poor fiddler more drink. ED [abraded] Maker Fremington Pottery , December 16 [abbraded].\r\nThe name of the maker almost certainly 'Fishley', possibly Edmund Fishley [illegible] of Fremington 1839-1861 or his son E.B. Fishley (d.1912). A nineteenth century date seems likely from the look of the script and from the fact that the date was worth removing. 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