Antique English Staffordshire Copper Lustre Blue Toby Jug Medium cattle scenes on china The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

Appears to have not been used

BROWN TRANSFERWARE POLYCHROME CHARGER or PLATTER

worked chiefly for James Johnson

Antique English Staffordshire Copper Lustre Blue Toby Jug Medium cattle scenes on china The Old Curiosity ShopHere is a rare, vintage antique circa 1891 1920 English Staffordshire Toby jug. A Toby Jug, also sometimes known as a Fillpot (or Philpot), is a jug made in the form of a either a seated person, or the head of a recognizable person or character. Typically the seated figure is a heavy set, jovial man holding a mug of beer in one hand and a tobacco pipe in the other. He will be wearing 18th century attire: a long coat and a tricorn hat. The tricorn hat