Jugs

The Florence Jug comes in four sizes and is one of the most beautiful jugs Belleek makes. The early jugs are particularly fine and are often decorated with pink, turquoise and gilded. The Shell Jug, although rare, is somewhat ungainly. Together with its sugar, also a shell on coral, it depicts a conch shell but is quite impractical.

At the other end of the scale are the little cream jugs with their matching sugar basins. The retail price in the 1870s for these jugs and their sugar basins were from 1/- to 1/6. The range of jugs was quite extensive and available plain, gilded, coloured or both. Some of the jugs were crested.

ABERDEEN JUG (top, right)
Named after Sir James Campbell Hamilton Gordon.
7th Earl and 1st Marquis of Aberdeen, Viceroy of Ireland 1886 and 1905 - 1915. Available flowered or un-flowered.
It is probable that the flowered jugs followed on from the
un-flowered version. Three sizes.

DIAMOND JUG (left)
Unpierced. Very rare. 2nd period.