Jug, white earthenware, with relief-moulded scrolls picked out in flow-blue and copper lustre and two figures possibly representing the dancers Jules Perrot and Carlotta Grisi overpainted in enamel colours; base, moulded registered design mark with enco

Jug, white earthenware, with relief-moulded scrolls picked out in flow-blue and copper lustre and two figures possibly representing the dancers Jules Perrot and Carlotta Grisi overpainted in enamel colours; base, moulded registered design mark with encoded date of 21st April 1852, made by George Ray, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1852+
Perrot and Grisi were the most celebrated dance pairing of the 1830s-1840s, being seen for the first time together in Grisi's London debut in 1836; the role of Giselle was created for her in 1841