A pearlware Toby jug c.1820

A pearlware Toby jug c.1820, perhaps Swansea, glazed in white with gilt detailing except for his ruddy face, his overflowing jug titled 'Honest Old Stingo', 25cm.

Provenance: the Colin Russell Collection.

The inscription on the jug comes from a line in the poem 'Toby Philpot' which is often credited for the naming of toby jugs. 'With a friend and a pipe puffing sorrow away, and with honest old stingo was soaking his clay' were the hero's last actions before he died. Stingo is a slang term for strong beer.