Doulton Lambeth, stoneware, salt glaze jug. Tapering cylindrical form. Uneven blue glaze with olive green under glaze. Raised, chocolate brown bands and white beaded moulding to rim and foot. Handle modelled as a group of bats bound together with boots, ball and broad brimmed hat. Eight sprigged, white figures, six in medallions, three batsmen and five fielders. Maker’s marks on base: Doulton/Lambeth (trade mark); 1884, diamond mark and artist’s marks ‘boo’, ‘mm' back to back and incised EW