Pitchers, Jugs, and Flagons:
Serving Beverages at the Table in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Made in Austria
• Jug, South Tyrol, 10th century
• Jug, St. Pölten, 13th century
• Jug, St. Pölten, 13th century
• Jug, Vienna, c. 1300
• Black-glazed jug, Vienna, 14th-15th century
• Jug, Vienna, 14th-15th century
• Jug, Vienna, 14th-15th century
• Pitcher, Vienna, 15th century
• Pitcher, Vienna, 15th century
• Glazed jug, Vienna, 15th century
• Jug, Vienna, 15th-16th century
• Jug, Vienna, c. 1400-1550
Made in Eastern Europe
• Decorated jugs, Hungary, c. 1450-1510
• Glazed jug with incised decorations, Hungary, c. 1500-1550
• Glazed jug with incised decorations, Kosice, Slovakia, 16th century
Made in England
• Late Saxon Shelly ware pitcher, 10th-11th century
• Stamfordware spouted pitcher, Lincolnshire, 10th-12th century
• Londonware spouted pitcher, late 11th - mid-12th century
• Early medieval Oxfordware biconical jug and pear-shaped jug, late 12th-early 13th century
• Brill/Boarstallware baluster jug and another baluster jug, late 12th - mid-13th century
• Brill/Boarstallware rounded jug and another rounded jug, early 13th century
• Ashampsteadware globular jug and rounded jug, Berkshire, 13th century
• Brill/Boarstallware baluster jug, more baluster jugs, triple-decker jug, puzzle jug, biconical jug, rounded jug, another rounded jug, conical jug, and pear-shaped jug, Buckinghamshire, 13th century
• Jug with frieze of dancing girls made at the 13th century kiln at Ham Green, near Bristol
• Baluster jug, Oxford, c. 1250-1350
• Mill Green ware, 1270-1350
• Kingston jug, late 13th century
• Mill Green ware jug, early 14th century
• Anthropomorphic jug, Kingston, early 14th century
• 14th century jugs
• Medieval ceramics from York
• Late medieval Hertfordshire glazed ware, 1340-1450
• Brill/Boarstallware drinking jugs, rounded jug, and shouldered jug, Buckinghamshire, 14th-15th century
• Potterspuryware rounded jug, Northamptonshire, 14th-15th century
• Nottingham green-glazed sandyware baluster jug with lid, 14th-15th century
• Brillware barrel-shaped jug, Buckinghamshire, 14th-15th century
• A South Somerset jug, mid-15th century
• Brillware biconical bottle and pear-shaped jug, Buckinghamshire, 15th-16th century
• Surrey-Hampshire borderware jugs, 16th century (use V&A Access to Images and search for Museum Number C.229-1939 or 268-1903)
• Midlands Purple ware barrel-shaped jug, early to mid-16th century
Made in France
• Sgraffito wine jug, Saintonge, c. 1250
• Saintonge green-glazed wine jug, c. 1250
• Saintonge jug, 13th century
• Glazed ceramic jug, c. 1250-1300
• Glazed ceramic jug, c. 1250-1300
• Saintonge green-glazed jug, c. 1250-1450
• Glazed jug, late 13th century
• Saintonge jug, late 13th century
• Ceramic jugs (caption), late 13th-early 14th century
• Saintonge polychrome jugs, c. 1280-1330
• Glazed jug, before 1300
• Saintonge jug, early 14th century (also here)
• Saintonge jug
• Fragments of Saintonge ware
Made in Germany
• Stoneware jug, Siegburg, 15th-16th century
• Stoneware jug (center), Siegburg, c. 1500 (use V&A Access to Images and search for Museum Number 2018-1901)
• Baluster stoneware drinking jug, near Siegburg, 16th century
• Two Frechen bottles, 1540-1580
• Bellarmine jug, Rhenish, second half of the 16th century
Made in Italy
• Maiolica pitcher made in Orvieto, c. 1251-1300
• Pitchers in maiolica arcaica, Orvieto, c. 1300
• Jug with scale pattern made in Siena c. 1350
• A pitcher made in upper Italy in the 15th century
• Armorial jug (boccale) made in Italy c. 1450
• Armorial jug (boccale), Florence, c. 1460-1480
• Boot-shaped maiolica jug, c. 1570-1590

• A leather bottel or bombard, London, 16th century

Flagons and ewers, which used to appear in this section, have been moved to their own pages.

• Brass pitcher found on the Serçe Limani shipwreck, 1020s
• Bronze jug, late 14th century (note similarity to the tripod ewers)
• Lidded jug, Hungary, c. 1550-1600
• Baluster measure in cast pewter, used in a tavern, c. 1550-1600
• A lidded jug with a coconut, Hungary, c. 1570-1600

• Tigerware jug (the stoneware jug made in Germany, the silver mount made in England), c. 1570-1573
• Malling jug; the jug itself made in Antwerp ca. 1580, the silver-gilt mounts added in London in 1581-2

• Flagon from the Mary Rose, 1545