Buff-colored body with mottled brown Rockingham-type glaze at top; high-gloss glaze overall. Modeled in round in form of rotund 18th c. man in coat and tricorner hat forming spout. Man sits on barrel marked XX and holds jug of punch. C-shaped handle at rear. Circular foot.
Toby jugs
stoneware (pottery)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
men (male humans)
Rockingham ware (American ceramics style)
Stoneware
Classical Figure
Man
Barrel
Rockingham
MUG
Impressed: [symbol and] DOULTON LAMBETH 1882 Rd169753 [artist mark obliterated]
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Doulton Lambeth (Manufacturer)
England, STAFFORDSHIRE
8.625 x 6.125 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.596
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