{"id":9359,"date":"2015-04-18T19:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T23:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=9359"},"modified":"2015-04-18T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T23:07:16","slug":"mortlake-stoneware-jug-c-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=9359","title":{"rendered":"Mortlake stoneware jug , c.1800"},"content":{"rendered":"

This heavy\u00a0salt glazed\u00a0stoneware ale jug was made in\u00a0Mortlake, London,\u00a0in\u00a0the late 1700s to early 1800s. It has\u00a0an attenuated baluster shape with\u00a0applied sprigged decoration including a panel of \u201cThe Two Boors\u201d, horses and hounds, classical figures, trees and a windmill on a mound. It stands 8″ high and has\u00a0a rilled neck and a narrow base, much of which has been chipped away.<\/p>\n

It’s apparent\u00a0that\u00a0the original handle is long gone\u00a0but luckily for me, a tinsmith in the 1800s fashioned a wonderful metal replacement handle. It has crimped edges for extra support and a finger rest for comfort when tightly gripped. I imagine\u00a0the original owner and a\u00a0chum\u00a0were inspired by the front panel depicting\u00a0\u201cThe Two Boors\u201d, drank too much ale and dropped the jug. But if it weren’t for our ancestors who drank to excess, my collection of ale jugs with inventive repairs would be minimal to nonexistent.<\/p>\n

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This jug of similar form has its original handle intact.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Nest Egg Antiques<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This heavy\u00a0salt glazed\u00a0stoneware ale jug was made in\u00a0Mortlake, London,\u00a0in\u00a0the late 1700s to early 1800s. It has\u00a0an attenuated baluster shape with\u00a0applied sprigged decoration including a panel of \u201cThe Two Boors\u201d, horses and hounds, classical figures, trees and a windmill on a mound. It stands 8″ high and has\u00a0a rilled neck and a narrow base, much of […]<\/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":[19,40,100,28,25],"class_list":["post-9359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-english","tag-metal-handle","tag-pottery","tag-salt-glaze","tag-stoneware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359","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=9359"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10182,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions\/10182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}