milk jug / Charles Stewart Parnell, 1888

Milk jug, with portrait of Charles Stewart Parnell, part of a 32 piece tea set by Skelton and Plant, England, c. 1888. Pear-shaped jug, straight sides, everted collar; pinched-out and moulded spout; waisted and outspread foot; high C-shaped handle. Hibernia printed underneath spout; Hibernia surrounded by a ribbon entitled 'Erin go Bragh' on one face; and Charles Stewart Parnell portrait above clasped hands on the other. A spray of shamrocks surrounds the cartoons and a spray extends in a frieze below the gilded collar.;