'Nelson and Tars': Two pearlware jugs, circa 1800

'Nelson and Tars': Two pearlware jugs, circa 1800
Inscribed in brown in a handsome script 'Nelson And (&) Tars' above a fouled anchor and flanked by a wheatsheaf and yellow and blue floral sprigs, with underglaze blue looped borders below the rims, 16.7cm and 22.8cm high (2)
Sailors became known as 'Jack Tar' or 'Tars' in the 18th century, most likely because of their use of tarpaulins, a canvas tarred to make it waterproof which was used and worn aboard ships.