Contents

  1. Dedication

  2. Acknowledgements

  3. What's in a Jug?: Art, Technology, Culture

  4. Introduction

  5. The Jugs

  6. Essay: Industrialization, Ornamentation, and Taste: Relief-Molded Jugs, 1830-1880

  7. Making and Molding

    1. Essay: Industrialization, Ornamentation, and Taste: Relief-Molded Jugs, 1830-1880

    2. The Magic of Molds

    3. Foxes and Hounds

    4. Seaweed Jug

    5. International Jug

    6. Diceware

    7. Shamrock

  8. Design: Jugs as Morality, Taste, and Identity

    1. Vines in Framework: Design, Taste, and Class

    2. Distin Family: The Saxhorn Performers

    3. Commemorative of Betrothal of Prince Albert Edward to Princess Alexandra

    4. The Crystal Palace

    5. Convolvulus

    6. Jug of All Nations

  9. Exoticism

    1. Alhambra

    2. Hudson No. 12

    3. Giraffe

    4. Arabian Nights

    5. Japanese Sprays

  10. What Clay can Say

    1. Falstaff

    2. Slavery

    3. Bacchanalian Dance

    4. Silenus

    5. The Vintage

    6. Amphitrite

    7. Putti

    8. Samuel and Eli

    9. Robert Burns

    10. Tam O'Shanter

  11. Drinking: Men Behaving Badly

    1. Medieval Revelry

    2. ‘The Snuff Taker’ Toby Jug

    3. ‘The Jolly Toper’ Uncle Toby and a Smoker

    4. Toby Philpot

    5. Willie Brew'd a Peck o' Maut

    6. Monkey Jug: 'Smoking Party' and 'Card Party'

  12. People Behind the Pots

    1. Wedgwood

    2. Portland Vase

    3. York Minster Apostle Jug

    4. Gothic Windows

  13. Mother Nature

    1. Chrysanthemum

    2. Blue Floral Pattern: Pattern No. 6750/7

    3. Bird in Bamboo

    4. Hops

    5. Society of Arts Prize Jug: 'Vintage'

    6. Lily of the Valley

  14. Scavenger Hunt

  15. Make and Take Event

  16. Radio Chipstone

  17. Suggested Reading