Which is the best supplier of Toby Jugs?
Nestegg Antiques is the leading provider of antique and early English Toby jugs and over the past ten years we have been able to work with both museums and private collectors around the world assisting them in expanding their collections.
How to tell the age of a toby jug?
Identifying the age of a Toby Jug Identifying the age, quality, character and maker of a jug can be very difficult, and the collector will benefit a great deal from experience, gained from visiting appropriate museums and antiques shops as well as reading on the subject.
How are Toby Jugs different from mass produced pottery?
Toby Jugs have been produced in a fascinating array of colours and three different methods of glazing are possible. In fact, unlike much of the mass-produced pottery of today, Toby Jugs of the eighteenth and nineteenth century possess an individuality about them which helps to make them such a fascinating subject for collection.
What kind of clothes does a toby jug wear?
A Toby Jug is a full-length figure – more often than not male, (although there are a few females too), and is dressed from head to toe in the clothing associated with the 18th Century: – a long frock coat, tricorn hat, knee-length breeches, waistcoat and neckerchief .
Nestegg Antiques is the leading provider of antique and early English Toby jugs and over the past ten years we have been able to work with both museums and private collectors around the world assisting them in expanding their collections.
Identifying the age of a Toby Jug Identifying the age, quality, character and maker of a jug can be very difficult, and the collector will benefit a great deal from experience, gained from visiting appropriate museums and antiques shops as well as reading on the subject.
Where are the Toby mugs and Character Jugs made?
Character Jugs were also made in the Delftregion of Holland for a short time, but most known examples were produced by several Staffordshire potteries.
A Toby Jug is a full-length figure – more often than not male, (although there are a few females too), and is dressed from head to toe in the clothing associated with the 18th Century: – a long frock coat, tricorn hat, knee-length breeches, waistcoat and neckerchief .
