A PEWTER HALF-GALLON ALE JUG

A PEWTER HALF-GALLON ALE JUG

BRISTOL, C.1830

stamp of Mark Fothergill & Sons, Bristol, (fl. c.1793-1825), or a successor, under the base, no other marks suggesting used privately rather than in trade, the rim cut at manufacture to insert a pouring spout, the lower body appears to come from the same moulds used to make the lower bodies of Bristol conical measures, the tongued thumbrest handle with ball terminal

18cm high

Provenance

The Carl Ricketts Collection of Pewter.

Formerly in the David Hall Collection.