Antique English Grocers Dairy Display PURE MILK Pail Cow Milk Maid c 1900 RARE

 Here is a rare, vintage/antique English ceramic ‘CREAM’ pail with an illustration by JC Van Hunnick, c1900.  This pail has been made using a cream colored bodied earthenware.  It features an image of a milk maid and a cow. It is most likely by the artist JC Van Hunnick. The design is a transfer print which looks like Prattware, with blue flowers and roses bordering the upper rim almost all the way around. The pail has the words PURE MILK in brick red uppercase lettering.  It is decorated all the way around, at top and bottom, with a floral design in a plethora of colors.  The cow image is on one side only.   The pail has a relief around it resembling bands and has two beautifully moulded handles applied to the sides with holes which obviously were for a handle.  Please study the photos. Traditionally dairy cows were kept inside the city of London with people buying milk directly from their local owners, who had purchased the exclusive rights to an area called a ‘milk-walk’. The quali