Rare 19th Century Lustreware Ale Measure with Transfers marble fruit 5 3/4" across at opening

5 3/4" across at opening

I believe this sweet cast lead polar bear was made by Britains

it still swivels smoothy but is a hair off flush when closed

and the atomic orange glaze is their perfect match

perhaps best of all the little drawn pigs feet on front and back

Rare 19th Century Lustreware Ale Measure with Transfers marble fruit 5 3/4" across at openingI really love antique children's cups incorporating transfer text, but this is the first cup without a handle I've found, which, given the poem on one side, it didn't take me too long to figure out is an ale measure! I can't find its match out there, but I did find a few lustreware graduated sets of three, so perhaps this was once part of a set, 19th c. British I am sure. I love the combination of drinking poem on one side paired with image of mother