Cream jug, bone china, with square lip, handle modelled in imitation of bamboo and acanthus mouldings around the foot and shoulder, decorated with blue printed cranes, bamboo and acanthus leaves; base, moulded registered design mark with encoded date of 11th September 1876, made by E J D Bodley, Hill Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1876+