Jug, white stoneware, slightly mottled smear glaze, square-topped pear shape, harp-shaped handle and hinged pewter lid, decorated with relief-moulded Egyptian motifs, including lotus on a textured ground representing water; base, impressed factory mark, 3 gill capacity mark (i.e. 15 fl. oz.), 24s (denoting the number accommodated in the batch) and registered design mark with encoded date of 2nd July 1877 impressed on an applied pad, made by W T Copeland and Sons, Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1877+
