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A Toby Jug, also sometimes known as a Fillpot (or Philpot), is a pottery jug in the form of a seated person; whereas a character jug features the head of a recognizable person. Typically the seated figure is a heavy-set, jovial man holding a mug of beer in one hand and a pipe of tobacco in the other and wearing 18th-century attire: a long coat ...
In 1949, former United States Army Air Forces officer Harvey Stovall spots a familiar Toby Jug in the window of a London antique shop and learns that it came from Archbury, an airfield where Stovall served during World War II. Convinced that it is the same jug which used to stand on the mantel of the airfield's officers' club, he buys it and ...
Lord Toby Jug [1] (born Brian Borthwick, [2] 18 December 1965 – 2 May 2019) [3] [4] was a British politician. He was the leader of the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire branch of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, serving as the party's media officer and a prospective parliamentary candidate, until being expelled from the Loony Party in 2014.
Central to the SylvaC line throughout its history were figurines of animals, and rabbits in particular. Dogs were also popular and virtually every breed ended-up being characterised in pottery. Many variations of Toby Jugs were produced, including 'character' versions which celebrated events or tied into product advertising.
Character Jugs varied from the traditional Toby Jugs in that they only featured the head and shoulders of a character. They were also more brightly coloured than the traditional Toby Jug. Doulton first introduced these character jugs in 1934 with Noke's own John Barleycorn. [3]
IC 2220, also known as the Toby Jug Nebula, is a reflection nebula located 1200 light years away in the southern constellation of Carina. [3] The nebula was observed by the Gemini South telescope in 2023. It has an almost symmetrical bipolar structure, made up of gas and dust, reflecting light of the central red giant star HR 3126.
He is credited with introducing the Toby jug, with his first being "Toby Philpot" circa 1762. He supplied Wedgwood with some models. He supplied Wedgwood with some models. Experts have become more cautious in attributing individual pieces to his pottery, and many are now described by terms such "Whieldon-type".
Her image is on several contemporary engravings and cartoons and a toby jug was made of her in 1840. There is a pub in Upper Lewes Road, Brighton called the Martha Gunn and she has a Brighton & Hove bus named after her. The Brighton-based pop group Martha Gunn also take their name from her. [1]