An early 19th Century Pot

This is a nice ornament we inherited.  It celebrates the first iron bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland and was made in 1810 (the bridge was opened in 1799).  So it is late Georgian and made of pink Sunderland lustreware.

The best bit is on the back.

The text reads “The Good Wife”

Show me the wife that’s on the watch
For every little rent or scratch,
And cures it with a timely patch,
Before you know it;
She is a woman fit to match
A Lord or Poet.

Very appropriate for my bedroom as it describes me pretty exactly.