FACE JUG ?

Any Ideas?

5.5" high

Does any one think this could be farnham pottery ,or anyone recognize the face featured , war time maybe .

the green glaze reminded me of Farnham, but i saw a piece only the other day and the green was lighter and more yellow. I have a few pieces of French pottery with this type of green glaze so i'm tending more towards there.

Cheers bistoboy , I agree farnham looks lighter ,although I know they did other colours as well , here's a site worth looking into , I will email them .
http://www.misc-histories.info/farnham-pottery/index.htm

Just received this reply from the farnham collectors
Hello Eddie and Kath,

Your pottery mug is very good, and very unusual. We've not seen one like that before. The Farnham Pottery certainly did make items with faces.

The glaze looks right for Farnham Pottery and the base look OK. We can say with 90-95% certainty that it is Farnham, and it is probably a late 19th/early 20th century piece.

Dunno dan , I don't know what they are worth anyway.

latest millers guide for a 2" high owl , is £300-400, they gotta be jestin' surely

I have , no reply as yet .

I contacted the Farnham museum as well as the collectors and got this reply
Thank you for the photographs of your face jug.
The design is completely new to me but the colour and the nature of the glaze is completely spot on for Farnham Greenware. I would expect the fabric of the clay to be quite orange in colour.
One cannot categorically say that this is definitely from the Wrecclesham pottery as very few of their products were signed or stamped. However, I would certainly say that the likelihood is that it was made there.
There is really no more that I can tell you. The peak period for producing pots with this distinctive green glaze was in the first 20 or 30 years of the last century.
I hope that this helps

With regards

Anne Jones
Curator
So I reckon I will open a farnham thread as I have another small vase that more or less concludes this is farnham from around the 1900's