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"Toby Jug"
Made at: Staffordshire (England)
English (Staffordshire)
about 1770
Object Place: Europe, England
Medium/Technique
Pearlware, colored enamels
Dimensions
Height x width: 26.7 × 12.1 × 17.8 cm (10 1/2 × 4 3/4 × 7 in.)
Credit Line
The John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss Theodora Lyman
Accession Number19.1266
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionCream-colored earthenware. Seated male figure hodling a pitcher in his lap. wearing brown coat, his beard and hair brown, shoes and tricorn hat black, seat and handle green, trousers yellow, pitcher decorated with blue. Colors rather thin.
Marks
Incised "C" on underside.
InscriptionsMFA loan label for Lyman with old loan number.
ProvenanceBy 1915, Theodora Lyman, Boston; 1919, gift of Miss Theodora Lyman to the MFA.