Antique Ironstone Pottery Green New Milk Pail

A good example of a hooped green milk pail with gilt highlighted words New Milk. The pail has its original lid. Height 10.5 inches, width 13.5 inches. Height with lid, 14 inches. Apart from some gilding wear and scratches to the green body there is no restoration or other damage. Stamped Dairy Supply to base. These are some of the earliest china milk pails produced and appeared in the Dairy Supply catalogue from the mid 1880,s onwards.