American Toby Jug Museum 

Martin Chuzzlewit character jug designed by Albert Hallam and produced by Beswick of Longton, England, circa 1970. "The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit" is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialized between January 1843 and July 1844. While he was writing it, Dickens told a friend that he thought it was his best work thus far, but it was one of his least popular novels, judged by sales of the monthly instalments. Martin Chuzzlewit, the wealthy patriarch of the Chuzzlewit family, lives in constant suspicion of the financial designs of his extended family. At the beginning of the novel he travels with Mary, an orphan he raised, who is his companion and caretaker. She receives an income while he is alive and is not named in his will; he feels this motivates her to keep him alive. Chuzzlewit's last will and testament forms the handle of the jug.