Love Not Sleep, 19 C. Sunderland Tranferware Crock with Hand-painting, Unusual Form beautiful I really want to know

I really want to know everything about this white bearded man in his black suit seeming a bit self conscious posing in what looks to be the backyard beside his Victorian rocker

in a black painted period frame

and also I think perhaps willingness to indulge this bird tugging at his collar

And then leather and gold-toned wire added for the bridle and reigns

I believe--chose this postcard to send to Miss Rosy Marek

Love Not Sleep, 19 C. Sunderland Tranferware Crock with Hand-painting, Unusual Form beautiful I really want to knowI look at a fair bit of earlyish 19th c. transferware, but it's a rare occasion to come across a transferware pot crock like this one. I am 99% certain this one was made by Sunderland, England, and I believe once has a lid, long gone. The short verse on one side is pretty unusual too I read it as basically saying 'do not be lazy!' On the flip side is a blindfolded man flanked by two women and floundering around as if in a game of blind mans bluff and