The number '4' is incised by hand beside the upper handle, indicating early production.  The full, rounded handles are typical of William Meyer with the end sharply cut off with the fingers and affixed to the churn with one finger tip and little working of the tip into the body of the churn.

Aside from the two handles, this piece is very similar to the four gallon churn pictured on page 39 of Georgeanna Greer and Harding Black's The Meyer Family: Master Potters of Texas.

Measures 17.5 inches tall and 7.5 inches across the mouth, 8.5 inches across the bottom. 

The body is light terra-cotta, indicating Black Hill Creek as the source of the clay.  The glaze is Leon slip in a soft yellowish-brown with some apple-green highlights at the upper extremities.   The internal glaze is a deep cocoa-brown.