American homes and gardens (1913) (14784516805)

Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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eyare, frankly speaking, drinking mugs, some of them illus-trating bear mugs and jugs and are made in astonishingvariety. Few resemble one another enough to make a realpair, and in fact when made in sets, they are often coloreddifferently to give variety. Some of the best specimensare equal to the old colored statuettes. They were madeby potters of renown who gave them great care. Amongthem were prominent the Shepherd Plaid; the DrinkingParson, with his flowing white hair; the Watchman, seated with his lantern be-tween his knees;the Sailor, standingby the side of a tree,one bough of whichforms the handle,and many otherquaint varieties. American Tobies werealso made. Some of themmade at Bennington are ofa peculiar mottled brownand are considered verygood. The most distin-guished of these show like-nesses of Washington,Ethan Allen and BenFranklin. The pottery wasdiscontinued in 1849. The quaint gay coloredbits that were once so pro-fusely made but which, withthe lapse of time, have dis-
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Toby mustard-pot appeared, are today comparatively few. They stand promi-nently among collectors interest as the most convivial of alldrinking vessels—called Toby from the thirsty old soulwho invented them. Many of them are most genial inappearance, while others have disagreeable leering faceswhich should, under ordinary circumstances, dispel thedrinker from partaking of his social glass of foaming beerfrom one of these odd, picturesque old mugs. Gabriel Varden, so Dickens tells us, drank out of just sucha mug as this, replenished constantly by the hand of DollyVarden, who sat near him at table. Maybe the jug fromwhich he drark was a Staffordshire one, gay with its redcoat and its green trousers, for the Staffordshire jugs showmore brilliant coloring than any others. Probably the mostprominent of all these makers and designers of Tobies wasRalph Wood, whose colorings, mentioned before, were ex-tremely delicate. Of course there were other potters whotook to figure making, which resul