Staffordshire pottery policeman pepper pot

Staffordshire pottery policeman pepper pot. The figure in the form of a Metropolitan policeman in his uniform and holding his truncheon.
Stands upon a circular plinth base. English, circa 1830 - 1850

The uniform, according to the Metropolitan Police Museum of Police history, ‘is roughly an approximation of that worn by Metropolitan Police Officers between 1829 and 1851’.