Jug, white stoneware, smear-glazed, with two relief-moulded scenes representing the decapitation of a warrior and a standing couple, the warrior's severed head lying between them, tents and palm trees forming the background; base, impressed factory mark

Jug, white stoneware, smear-glazed, with two relief-moulded scenes representing the decapitation of a warrior and a standing couple, the warrior's severed head lying between them, tents and palm trees forming the background; base, impressed factory mark and registered design mark with encoded date of 3rd June 1854, apparently on an applied pad, made by Thomas Till and Son, Sytch Pottery, Burslem, Staffordshire, 1854+
the scene possibly represents the death of Hector, who was killed in combat with Achilles, Achilles afterwards claiming Hector's wife, and the spoils of victory (Homer, The Iliad)