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The many different versions of Fair Hebe jugs are discussed by Robert Charleston in his ECC paper, Jean Voyez, Transactions vol.5, pt.1, pp.8-41. Voyez apparently provided models for Fair Hebe jugs to a number of different potters, including Richard Astbury, Enoch Wood and Robert Garner. A small size jug in plain creamware is known with a portrait on the reverse of the poet William Shenstone, the author of a song from 1743 which included lines in praise of a 'Fair Hebe', quoted in Charleston's paper