American Toby Jug Museum 

Friar character jug produced by Koessinger of Schierling, Germany, in a 1986 limited edition for the Holzkirchen hiking club, or Wanderfreunde, as an award to members of the club. 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 be a brother. The most significant orders of friars are the Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, and Carmelites. This jug is based on Magrou and Capodimonte character jugs in larger sizes.