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From 1910 until the very early 1930s, the Homer Laughlin China Company made specialty jugs with lustre sprays and oversized decals. Most lustres were applied towards the tops of the jugs. They were either single color, or a combination of two colors. The decals were never meant for regular dinnerware. Their larger sizes were perfect to decorate medium size jugs, as wells as platters and serving/salad bowls.
The combinations of lusters and large decals were used on second and third quality ware. When a jug, platter, or other serving pieces had imperfections, it wasn't used in a standard dinnerware line. Instead, it could be decorated with the lustre-decal combo and turned into a sellable piece of ware. Small grocery stores, hardware stores, wholesalers, and retailers could purchase the specialty pieces and sell them as stand-alone items, usually at a discount.
There were several lusters used, though orange and green seem to be the most common. Jugs were picked up from various shapes available at the time, with Genesee and Empress being favored. They were often listed in advertisements as lemonade jugs.
Below are just a few of the luster-decal combinations that can be found.
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