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One of a pair of creamware wedding tankards, decorated in polychrome with wreaths and flowers and depicting a cutter-rigged vessel with a square topsail, under sail, painted in red-brown on a green sea and flying a red swallow-tailed pennant. 'Success to the Union' is inscribed below the ship, 'Thos. & Mary Marsh' below the handle. Thomas Marsh was the master of the vessel 'Union'.