Double-Handled Jug with Lion

Artisan: Jane Graber
Date: 2008
Inscriptions: signed and dated ‘Graber 2008’ (on the base)
Dimensions: 33 x 23 x 23 mm. / 1 ⅜ x 1 x 1 inches (height x width x depth)
Intended Room: Servants’ Hall
Inventory number: 2022.139
Category: Ceramics

Provenance: Purchased from eBay in 2022.

Our Jane Graber collection is growing, to the point where I’m not sure whether it’ll be possible to display it all in the Servants’ Hall; perhaps we should simply display it separately in its own right? But that’s a question for a later date. I fell in love with this double-handled stoneware jug as soon as I saw it. The lion, poised in front of a tree, was simply too adorable to resist, and I haven’t yet seen another piece by Jane with this motif.