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1. See Lipski and Archer, D)ated Delftware, 
nos. 1016-1018, for 1721 1729 dated examples 
of this shape. Austin, Delft, no. 31, states this 
rhyme occurs on 85 percent of the 50 or so 
examples bearing pairs of couplets. 
2, See Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, 
no. 1035 (1784 cylindrical puzzle jug); and 
nos, 1020-1023, 1032 1033, for other dated 
puzzle jugs with the rhyme. 
3. A 1779 one is inscribed. "Gentlemen now try 
your skill./I'll lay you Sixpense if you willfIDrink 
out of this without a/spill" (V&A Museum collec- 
tion, no. C339-1919). For 19th-century slipware, 
see Crossley, Puzzle jugs, p. 76, fig. la (1850); 
Sotheby's (L), _June 6, 1989, lots 324 (1876), 326 
(1860); Draper, I)ated, pl. 13 (1877), and for an 
earthenware (not slipware) example, 
pl. 25 (1845). 
4. Archer, V&A, nos. 1).5 1.8. Horne comments 
(October 1998). For a 1674 dated, probably Ion- 
don dish with related pierced flowers, see ILipski 
and Archer, Dated Delftware, no. 135. 
5. For a "Here Gentlemen" puzzle jug somewhat 
similar in proportions, with handle and rim 
ornament much like that on the ILongridge pot 
and with a pierced pattern usually associated 
with I Liverpool, see Archer and Morgan, China 
Dishes, no. 69, 
6. Archer, V&A, nos. D).8: Grigsby, Chipstone, 
no. 22. 
7. Grigsby, Chipstone, no. 21. 
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