American Toby Jug Museum 

Friar toby jug produced by Bairstow Manor Pottery of Hanley, England, circa 1985. A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the older monastic orders' allegiance to a single monastery formalized by their vow of stability. A friar may be in holy orders or a brother. The most significant orders of friars are the Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, and Carmelites. This toby jug is a part of the Staffordshire Character Jugs Series.