A Worcester milk jug

A Worcester fluted baluster shaped sparrow beak milk jug, with ear shaped handle, painted in coloured enamels with trailing flowers and leaves, above a turquoise 'shagreen' band, the blue ground rim with gilt flower heads and 'C' scrolls, 4" high, circa 1780, blue crescent mark

See Treasures From Toronto II, 1994, number 67, for a tea canister and cover in this pattern. A service in this pattern was presented to Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by the people of Cheltenham on the occasion of her marriage in 1947 

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