American Toby Jug Museum 

Cruella de Vil character jug produced by Bioworld of Irving, Texas, circa 2022. Cruella de Vil is a fictional character in British author Dodie Smith's 1956 novel "The Hundred and One Dalmatians". A pampered and glamorous London heiress and fashion designer, she appears in Walt Disney Productions' animated feature film, "101 Dalmatians" (1961). In most of her incarnations, Cruella kidnaps the 15 puppies of the main Dalmatian characters, Pongo and Perdita, intending to turn them into fur coats along with 84 other Dalmatian puppies she legally bought before. Cruella chooses to skin puppies because when short-haired dogs grow older, their fur becomes very coarse and does not sell as well in the fur fashion industry as the fine, soft fur of puppies. The character became a pop-culture icon and a famous symbol of dastardly greed, vanity and evil.