Mug of buff-coloured earthenware, the inside is coated with white slip, and the outside with brown, with vertical wavy stripes and combed bands of white slip, the whole covered with a yellow glaze. Inverted bell-shaped with small loop handle. Slipware beer mugs and jugs were made throughout the 17th century, to be used for dining at home, as well as for use in taverns.

Towards the end of the 17th century the earthenware potters in Staffordshire began to expand their manufacture. Though land-locked and at first dependent on 'crate men' selling pottery from their backpacks, the North Staffordshire potteries eventually improved their turnpike roads and began to use the River Trent to gain access to the sea and foreign markets.