Earthenware whiskey bottle w/ cork top; "Fine Old Scotch Whisky"; embossed "JRD" w/ in shield and surrounded by wreath; bottom tan darkening upwards to burnt orange and rust.
whiskey jugs
cookware
earthenware
glazing (coating)
painting (coating)
molding (forming)
relief (sculpture techniques)
tin (metal)
Earthenware
Relief Molded
Painted
Tin Glazed
JUG, WHISKEY
Impressed stamp on bottom: ""DOULTON/ LAMBETH/ ENGLAND"" Also random numbers and letters and ""4220"" Impressed dating system: ""4220""-- 4th of February 1920 (possibly)
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Doulton & Co. (Maker)
Burslem, England, Staffordshire
9.25 (H), 5.25 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.901
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