A MINTON MAJOLICA DARK-BLUE-GROUND BACCHUS JUG modelled by Hamlet Bourne in the Renaissance style, the tapering oval body with a scroll handle and moulded with green acanthus and a caryatid figure of Plenty, the spout with a satyr's mask, the sides moulded in relief with two oval cartouches enclosing reclining goddesses flanked by scrolling arabesques, and with a female and a bearded ram's mask, the lower body moulded with gadroons, on a flared foot (restoration to handle), impressed marks, model number 732, date code for 1869