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Five sizes were offered in 1930: ½, 1, 1½, 2 and 3 pints. A few examples
have been noted with the first Royal Doulton mark (lion above crown) but
most have the later mark (without crown) and most also
carry the model number 8830 or X8830. They are very close copies of
older London made jugs - Stiff (half and 1 pint), Vauxhall (1 and 2
pint) and Fulham (3 pint) all with Stiff handle sprigs plus a half pint
with a mixture of Stiff and Vauxhall sprigs. There are two different
versions of the small jugs so the same may apply for the larger sizes.
No example of a 1½ pint has yet been seen.
The production of these "old style" jugs is likely to have been at the suggestion of Joseph Mott, Doulton's art director from 1897. He is known to have been a collector and some of his items are illustrated in Blacker's A.B.C. of English Salt Glaze stoneware (1922). The two pint jug shown below is copied from a jug (in my collection) with impressed mark Patrick Vauxhall and a paper label reading J.H. Mott (presumably the one illustrated by Blacker on the plate facing page 118). |
Click on any of the images below to see details of the different sized jugs.