Drinking symbols--cat, monkey with boot, bear

Description

Stein depicts Monkey holding boot on inlay lid, figures of cats and monkeys in middle panels, bear handle.  Light grey salt glaze, brown figures, green panels.  Here is some additional info below.
This stein will ship anywhere in the US for .50 using USPS medium flat rate box.
The stein shown is salt-glazed gray stoneware richly decorated in relief with symbols of drinking. A monkey seated on the lid clutching his
Stiefel
(drinking boot) is an oft-used symbol of the drinking habit. A bear (slow moving and slow witted) forms the figural handle. The cats encircling the body provide a visual pun, as the word
Kater
means both tomcat and hangover. The verse reminds us of the virtues of drinking:
'S ist besser mit Affen mit Kater und Bären
Als allzeit mit Ochsen und Eseln verkehren.
Your precious time is better spent with tomcats, monkeys and bears than with oxen and stubborn donkeys.