A massive Herculaneum salt-glazed stoneware jug and cover late 18th/early 19th century

A massive Herculaneum salt-glazed stoneware jug and cover late 18th/early 19th century, applied with two hunting scenes either side of a blank oval cartouche, the shoulder with a continuous band of fruiting vine, the spout formed as the mask of a grotesque satyr, impressed mark, 55.5cm. (2)

Cf. Peter Hyland, The Herculaneum Pottery: Liverpool's Forgotten Glory, p.63, fig. 51 for a creamware jug of the same shape and dimension.

Provenance: from the collection of the Gladstone family at Fasque House.