Mug, cream-coloured earthenware, octagonal, with two bands in low relief simulating split bamboo and decorated with printed and enamelled Japanese motifs including fans, prunus blossom and butterflies; base, painted pattern number 1040 and printed regis

Mug, cream-coloured earthenware, octagonal, with two bands in low relief simulating split bamboo and decorated with printed and enamelled Japanese motifs including fans, prunus blossom and butterflies; base, painted pattern number 1040 and printed registered design mark with encoded date of 25th May 1882, made by William Alsager Adderley, Daisy Bank Pottery, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1882+
the item may originally have been accompanied by a saucer