A saltglazed stoneware tobacco jar and cover made in Brampton Chesterfield England around the middle years of the Nineteenth Century(1840-50). Coloured in a typical honey brown glaze and with nice detail to each side - one showing a boy stealing a piglet and being chased by the mother pig - the other depicting two jolly topers.Scroll handles to each end of the jar and an acanthus finial to the top of the cover. The lid is perfect - the jar has restoration on one corner of the base rim.See photos. Unmarked. Height 6 1/2ins approx.Length - 5 1/2ins.