Pottery flagons such as this were filled with beer or cider to quench the thirst of farm labourers in the fields. Though this particular example seems so elaborate that it must have had some commemorative meaning. There is another similar example with flattened sides, though without the green jewelling to the handle or the cream coloured piping, which is exhibited at the Hastings Museum in East Sussex and is dated to the previous year 1845. Height : 10.50 inches Medium: Earthenware with glazed slip decoration. Place of origin : Rye, Sussex, England.