An unusual pewter-mounted Westerwald stoneware jug 17th century

An unusual pewter-mounted Westerwald stoneware jug 17th century, decorated with alternate panels of a bearded figure and a group of spired buildings, the latter panels surmounted by a figure in Tudor costume with legs akimbo, piercing himself on the panel's apex, glazed in blue and manganese, the pewter cover perhaps later and engraved with the initials IPR, 21.5cm.

Provenance: from a private collection in Wiltshire.