{"id":822,"date":"2010-03-22T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2014-04-30T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T20:04:17","slug":"victorian-toby-jug-c-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Toby jug, c.1870"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What could be more English than a Toby jug? This example, most likely made by Copeland Spode around 1870 and much copied by other potters, is hand painted using polychrome\u00a0overglaze enamels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4753\" title=\"IMG_1943\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19434.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19434-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jug measures 6-1\/2&#8243; tall by \u00a07-1\/4&#8243; wide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19441.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4754\" title=\"IMG_1944\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19441.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19441-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19441-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sizable tin handle with thumb and fingers grips was\u00a0made by a tinker, replacing the original ceramic handle which broke off over 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19461.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4755\" title=\"IMG_1946\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19461.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19461-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Toby jug sitting at the far left atop of the chest of drawers in the painting The Latest Addition by Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958) bears a striking resemblance to mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/toby-painting1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8761\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/toby-painting1.jpg\" alt=\"toby painting\" width=\"400\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/toby-painting1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/toby-painting1-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/174L11132_63Y3H-Version-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8762\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/174L11132_63Y3H-Version-21.jpg\" alt=\"174L11132_63Y3H - Version 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/174L11132_63Y3H-Version-21.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/174L11132_63Y3H-Version-21-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Robert Moores of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nesteggantiques.co.uk\">NestEgg Antiques<\/a> for sharing his knowledge of Toby jugs with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could be more English than a Toby jug? This example, most likely made by Copeland Spode around 1870 and much copied by other potters, is hand painted using polychrome\u00a0overglaze enamels. Jug measures 6-1\/2&#8243; tall by \u00a07-1\/4&#8243; wide. A sizable tin handle with thumb and fingers grips was\u00a0made by a tinker, replacing the original ceramic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,40,100,22],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-english","tag-metal-handle","tag-pottery","tag-staffordshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8764,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/8764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}