Harvest jug

Brannam’s pottery was in Barnstaple, North Devon.
From 1881, the Litchdon Pottery was run by Charles Hubert Brannam and he became successful at producing Art Pottery. This included selling ceramics at Liberty’s London, taking advantage of the developing railway system to transport the wares from Devon. Queen Victoria’s patronage in 1885 earned the pottery a new name, Royal Barum Ware. Brannam’s best known decorators were James Dewdney and William Baron (who left Brannam’s in 1899 to set up his own pottery at Rolle Quay, Barnstaple).
Their designs used the sgraffito method of scraping away a top layer of slip to reveal another colour below. This jug follows the traditional North Devon Harvest Jug tradition, where a cream coloured slip is coated on top of the earthenware clay vessel. The slip has been scraped away to leave this floral pattern. The porous earthenware pottery was then and glazed and fired to make it safe to hold water or cider.

Object Summary

Accession Loan No.
119/1997
Collection Class
British ceramics
Material
earthenware
Common Name
Harvest jug
Simple Name
jug
Period Classification
Victorian (1837-1901)
Production Town
Barnstaple 
Production County
N. Devon
Production Country
United Kingdom: England
Production Person Initials
Charles H
Production Person Surname
Brannam
Production Year Low
1880
Production Year High
1900

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harvest jug