IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75319 accession number: C.50-1930 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 December 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded and decorated with dark brown and red-brown slips, underglaze oxide colours and blue-tinted clear and green lead-glazes. The jug is in the form of a man wearing a dark-brown cocked hat, a long brown and yellow coat, pale brown knee breeches and dak brown shoes, seated on a barrel laid on its side, with a spaniel lying in front of it at his feet. He faces towards the viewer, with his head turned to his left, and holds a bulbous pale brown jug filled with foaming ale in both hands. The green-glazed square base has cut corners, and is slightly concave and unglazed underneath. The handle, also green, rises from the top of the base in the form of a looped branch. object type: lead-glazed earthenware jug in the form of a man holding a jug of ale, and sitting on a barrel with his dog beside his feet title: Toby jugs NOTES ----- type: history note value: Stoner & Evans, London, from whom purchased for £60 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75319 PEOPLE ------------------- King, Edward SUBJECTS ------------------- drinking TECHNIQUES ---------- cream-coloured earthenware, press-moulded in parts and assembled, decorated with dark brown and brown slip, and clear bluish, green, yellow, pale brown, lead-glazes press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1785 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory maker: Wood, John (II) DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 14 dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 'Good Sir Toby'. The story of Toby Jugs and character Jugs through the Ages The origin of the Toby Jug Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Important English Pottery from a European Private Collection Works of Art from the Bute Collection, Toby Jugs and Glass --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_50_1930_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_50_1930_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_50_1930_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_50_1930_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_50_1930_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_50_1930_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_50_1930_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_50_1930_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels