This object was made when the cruel sport of bear baiting was still legal in this country.Brown bear jugs like this one were hand made by the stoneware potters in Nottingham in the mid 18th century.

Q This is a stoneware ... jug (nine litres). Ebenezer Lawrence Farrar was one of the first stoneware producers in Canada at St. Johns, Que., in the 1840s. After some destructive fires the pottery ...