Harvest jug
We do not know the maker of this earthenware harvest jug from North Devon but we know its intended owner in the inscription on the side: Miss Ann Williams / Paul may Plant / and Appolos water / But God gives / Me Increase Bideford / 1866.
The decoration includes birds and flowers and has been carefully worked using a sgrafifito style. This means that a layer of cream slip (thin clay) was applied to the surface of the jug and then the design scratched through it with a point to reveal the colour of the jug underneath. In some places quite large areas of slip have been scratched away. A transparent lead glaze cover the whole jug to make it watertight.
The decoration includes birds and flowers and has been carefully worked using a sgrafifito style. This means that a layer of cream slip (thin clay) was applied to the surface of the jug and then the design scratched through it with a point to reveal the colour of the jug underneath. In some places quite large areas of slip have been scratched away. A transparent lead glaze cover the whole jug to make it watertight.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 74/1931/1
- Collection Class
- British ceramics
- Material
- earthenware | | | |
- Common Name
- harvest jug
- Simple Name
- jug
- Inscription Transcription
- Miss Ann Williams / Paul may Plant / and Appolos water / But God gives / Me Increase Bideford / 1866
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- Bideford
- Production County
- N. Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- c 1866
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- 1865
- Production Year High
- 1866
