Notes

A rare and amusing medieval jug covered with a green glaze and modelled on the neck with the face of a bearded man with pointed beard and nose and incised eyebrows and mouth, his two hands applied and rising from the globular body to his chin, the remainder of the body incised with geometric designs and with massive, simply modelled loop handle, 7 ½ in.; 14th/ 15th Century.
This jug is reputed to have been dug up at the site of the Old Bailey; and for a comparable jug in the Guildhall Museum see Barnard Rackham, Medieval English Pottery, pl. 47, and another unglazed example, pl. 46.