POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.

This piece dates from about the middle of the eighteenth
century.   (Ill. 276.)
Belonging to the latter end of the eighteenth century is
a fine large dish (Ill. 277), with slip-traced design of tulips
276.-SLIP-DECORATED SHAVING BASIN.
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, ABOUT 1750.
PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM.
and birds and the following quotation, from a German
hymn, written in 1640 by Georg Neumark, court poet and
librarian in Weimar, first printed in 1657:
"Sing, bet und geh auff Gottes Wegen,
Vericht das deine nur getreu."
Translation:
Sing, pray and go on God's way,
Perform what thou hast to do faithfully.

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