Cf. Rackham, Glaisher Collection, pl. 34, no. 469 for an engine-turned milk-jug and cover with a similar mark and no. 468, a teapot and cover from the same service with a partial mark; and Walton, Temple Newsam, p. 58, no. 195 for a coffee-pot in The Leister Museum in the same pattern as the present lot and also impressed ASTBURY.

The present lot would appear to be one of only four recorded examples of redware marked ASTBURY. For a discussion on redwares and the difficulty of attribution see Price, Redware, Vol. 4, part 5, p. 1-9 and Vol. 5, part 3 p. 153-168.