How many water jugs come up for sale?

Around thirteen come to market in a typical year on Sellingantiques, and fifty-one different dealers have listed one. No single dealer holds the category. That spread is part of why the material varies so widely from listing to listing.

What period are most of these from?

The dealers' dating field runs 1800 to 1930. Of 115 listings, only 49 carry a clean year, and '19th Century' alone accounts for 24 of them. Where decades are given they cluster in the 1880s and 1890s, then the 1850s, 1900s and 1930s. Georgian, Victorian and Regency also appear as period words in place of a year.

Are jugs usually sold with a matching bowl?

No. Most titles are single jugs. That said, at least nine listings pair the jug with a bowl, basin, washbasin or footbath, so the washstand set is a steady presence rather than the norm.

What does a graduated set mean?

Three jugs of the same pattern in descending sizes, sold together as one lot. They turn up in parian, in ironstone and in plain Victorian earthenware, and they sit above single jugs of comparable body in the range.

Do any non-ceramic water jugs appear?

Roughly one in eight of the samples is something other than pottery or porcelain. Cut glass, cranberry and amber lemonade glass, hand-blown Italian glass, copper jugs and cans, and silver plate all feature. The outliers go further still: a coopered oak jug with a figural spout, a galvanised railway jug, and a Japanese Meiji-period jug each appear once.

Which jugs carry commemorative subjects?

Subject and commemorative jugs recur across the whole range. Titles name bull baiting, Admiral Lord Nelson, Sir Robert Peel, Victoria and Wellington, a Queen Victoria jubilee, Oddfellows, and a print of Boston State House and New York City Hall. Dealers pitch these above plain jugs, and the subject is generally the first thing stated in the title.

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A jug made to carry and pour water, at the washstand or on the dining table, and on Sellingantiques that means mostly English pottery and porcelain of the 19th century.