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Buff colored semi-vitrified body with deep brown glaze with high-gloss lead glaze finish. Waist-length form of rotund man holding cup and jug at front, wearing a tricorner hat that forms spout. Rosette on side of hat (possibly indicating Stewart Monarchy sympathies?). C-shaped handle, modeled reminiscent of tree branch, with leafy spur at top. Deeply recessed bottom.
Toby jugs
earthenware
glazing (coating)
tin (metal)
foliation (pattern)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
faces (animal or human components)
men (male humans)
Rockingham ware (American ceramics style)
Earthenware
Tin Glazed
Rockingham
Face
Man
Branch
MUG
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
5.625 x 4.75 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.591
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