Jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jugs without spouts were used much like mugs are today. Potters were active in Kingston-on-Thames (now part of London) from the 1260s, and their earliest described products were royal orders. Both men and women were eventually listed among the city’s "Poters," who supplied large numbers of ceramic pieces to the nearby capital.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world. Displayed in both The Met Fifth Avenue and in the Museum's branch in northern Manhattan, The Met Cloisters, the collection encompasses the art of the Mediterranean and Europe from the fall of Rome in the fourth century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. It also includes pre-medieval European works of art created during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age.

Metropolitan Museum of Art