Jug

John Eydes

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A French writer in the mid-sixteenth century noted the English "consume great quantities of beer and do not drink it out of glasses, but from earthen pots with silver handles and covers, and this even in houses of persons of middling fortune." The pots arrived in England from Germany by the hundreds, costing just a few pence each. The addition of gilded silver mounts, like on the jug seen here, increased their value three-hundredfold.

Jug, John Eydes, Stoneware, silver gilt, British, Exeter

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Jug, John Eydes, Stoneware, silver gilt, British, Exeter
Jug, John Eydes, Stoneware, silver gilt, British, Exeter
Jug, John Eydes, Stoneware, silver gilt, British, Exeter
Jug, John Eydes, Stoneware, silver gilt, British, Exeter
Jug, John Eydes, Stoneware, silver gilt, British, Exeter

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