tankard

Summary

Cylindrical tankard with heavy loop handle and inverted foot, relief-moulded around side with nursery rhyme scene. To right of handle, an ochre fox is making off with a goose, hotly pursued by a smocked farmer wielding a stick. To the right, John, a young man in brown jacket and ochre trousers stands by a tree stump with his pitchfork, looking on while behind him Old Mother Slipper-Slopper, in blue dress and ochre banded cap, unleashes a savage dog. Ground picked out in large brown and ochre daubs. Relief border of husk type florets around rim, picked out in brown, ochre and blue, wide stiff leaf border round foot, plain but for leaf edges in alternating brown and blue. Handle moulded with acanthus leaf detail picked out in cobalt blue.