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Mocha ware jug trio, c.1840

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

I love finding sets with matching inventive repairs, such as these three English jugs found together in Maine.

The largest jug is 6-1/2″ tall and has blue bands and earthworm decoration, made from slip.

There is an elegantly shaped tin replacement handle with straps, showing remains of the original broken handle.

The middle jug is 5-3/4″ high with a bold design of blue and green bands.

The crimped tin strap at the top front of the jug has corroded.

The smallest blue striped jug is 5″ high.

A flimsy tin replacement handle is now bent and rusting.

This almost identical jug is intact without the abuse of my trio.

Photo courtesy of Louwers Antiques

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Tuscan pottery jug, c.1860

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

When this redware pottery Italian jug from the mid-1800’s cracked, a skillful person enmeshed it in a hand-woven wire net.

I spotted this jug at an outdoor market in Tuscany a few years ago and since then I discovered similarly repaired pottery from other European countries.

The large rim chip on the lip reveals the red clay underneath the black glaze. Jug stands 6-3/4″ high.

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Prattware ovoid form jug, c.1810

Friday, March 19th, 2010

A charming English pottery jug from Staffordshire measures 6-1/2″ high, with colorful relief images of children and dates from the early 1800’s. One side shows a boy, a girl holding a doll and their dog and is marked “Sportive Innocence”.

The other side shows the girl and boy fighting and is marked “Mischievous Sport”.

A metal handle was firmly put in place when the original handle broke off, most likely by mischievous children!

This jug is shows what the original molded handle looked like.

Photo courtesy of John Howard

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Pearlware blue & white cream jug, c.1820

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

An English pottery pearlware footed cream jug with cobalt blue transfer decoration, measures 5-1/4″ high.

This was purchased in London at the start of my collecting antiques with inventive repairs.

It remains one of the favorite pieces in my collection.

The broken handle was faithfully reproduced in woven rattan and I have yet to see another example like it.

The original handle, as seen on the same shaped jug below.

Photo courtesy of Merlin Antiques

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Miniature salt glaze stoneware jug, c.1840

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

I love miniatures and was really excited to find this tiny two-toned floral sprigged pottery jug, made in Derbyshire, England in the mid-1800’s.

This little jug stands a mere 2″ tall and is made of stoneware with a salt glazed finish, which was fired at a high temperature to insure a glass-like, non-porous surface.

The original handle was replaced with an over scaled tin handle & strap, looking a bit out of proportion on this small jug.

This is what the original jug handle might have looked like had it not broken off.

Photo courtesy of eBay

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Dudson jasperware jug, c.1870

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

A large jasperware water jug with sprigged decoration, made by potter Richard Dudson in Stoke-on-Trent, England in the mid-nineteenth century. Jug stands 7-3/4″ tall.

Dudson ceramics pieces are often mistaken for the work of rival potter Josiah Wedgwood, which are similar in form, decoration and color.

The broken handle was replaced over one hundred years ago by a massive pewter handle & support straps, masking much of the sprigged cherubs decoration.

This jug with similar form and decoration shows what the original handle on my jug would have looked like.

Photo courtesy of eBay

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Prattware “Duke of York” jug, c.1800

Monday, March 15th, 2010

English commemorative pottery jug, stands 7-1/2″ tall.

Has embossed figures of the Duke of York and Prince Cobourg.

Broken handle was replaced with a basic tin replacement handle.

An original jug showing handle intact.

Photo courtesy of Aurea Carter Antiques

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Baluster cruet jug, c.1710

Monday, March 15th, 2010

A unusual Chinese porcelain baluster form cruet jug with beak spout, stands 5-1/2″ high. It is decorated in the Chinese Imari pattern, using cobalt blue and iron red enamel washes and gilt highlights.

The original porcelain handle has been replaced by a woven rattan covered gilt bronze handle, set at right angle.

These three examples of similarly formed cruet jugs each have their original handles & lids.

Photo courtesy of Christie’s

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Mason’s Ironstone jug, c.1830

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

A Large English paneled body pottery jug, made in North Staffordshire, England in the early nineteenth century. The Mason family of potters traded under various styles at Lane Delph and Fenton from 1800-54. Charles James Mason patented the famous “PATENT IRONSTONE CHINA” in 1813. Jug measures 8″ high.