Maker: Minton  Pattern: Two Temples

This pattern is also known as Broseley. An unusual item, an attractive jug with an integral strainer and a lid. Jugs of this type are usually known as toast water jugs as they were ideal for making that traditional cure-all liquid.
It has had a life, but is in pretty good condition overall. The jug has a minor chip to the spout and some patches of light crazing, which have taken up a bit of staining, but this is virtually all inside. There is a stress-firing crack up the bottom of the handle. The lid is rather fancy, with a large cut out to fit round the handle and a prominent lip to fit over the strainer. It has a dark blue basket weave finial. There is a manufacturing chip, glazed over, to the rim that just shows through! There are also three other later chips, which mainly affect the underside of the rim. It is one of those pieces that sounds awful, but looks fine.
Blue printed backstamp Semi-China in an octagonal lozenge.
In our opinion this jug was made by Minton about 1820.

Dimensions: 0.9 ltr 18.5 cm high / 1.5 pt 7.25 ins high