This is a earthenware beer stein with a unusual lid: to open the lid you need to twist it instead of lifting it.
My gut feeling is that the stein probably dates to the mid 20th century and may have been made in Eastern Europe.
Some kind SCI experts have looked at it and generally came to the same conclusion, although there is no consensus as to where it may have originated from.
As for the sliding lid mechanism, I suspect that this is a curiosity from the 1960's or 70's, and that such a lid design was 'new' at the time and not based on lids from earlier days. Thus, the jug is probably nothing more than that: a decorative jug with a curious lid, made in the second half of the 20th century.
There are no visible factory markings.
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