A SET OF SIX DUTCH DELFT PLATES
A SET OF SIX DUTCH DELFT PLATES

19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX DUTCH DELFT PLATES
19TH CENTURY
Numbered 1-6, each with a moralising inscription encouraging temperance
9 in. (21.9 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

The poem translates approximately as follows:
Jeneever is a type of thing that makes everything deteriorate / Gold, silver and money and all the best clothes / It makes your legs thin and your head similar to the moon / As if you went off track for six years / Who goes to pubs often, becomes slower in his work / He makes the landlord fat and he himself becomes skinny

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