Royal Doulton Rip Van Winkle Famous Protagonist Toby Character Jug D6785 7.5"

Description

Vintage Royal Doulton 6785 porcelain character jug pitcher of Rip Van Winkle from Washington Irving's classic American folklore story. Hand-painted glazed earthenware depicting an elderly bearded man in a dark hat, with a handle shaped like a tree branch featuring a small bird and a seated figure. Circa 1987, from the Characters from Literature series.

In the story, Rip Van Winkle is an amiable but deeply lazy Dutch-American villager living in New York's Catskill Mountains. To escape his nagging wife, he wanders into the mountains one day, encounters mysterious, ghostly settlers playing nine-pins, and drinks their magical liquor.

He falls into a deep sleep and wakes up 20 years later as an old man with a long gray beard, completely unaware of the time that has passed. When he returns to his village, he discovers everything has changed: his wife has passed away, his children are grown, and the American Revolution has taken place, turning him from a British subject of King George III into a citizen of a free United States

Condition

Very good

Dimensions

7"w x 5"d x 7.5"h