Puzzle jug
Although inscribed with a date, 1789, we do not know where this puzzle jug was made. It may have been made in Ewenny in Wales, or in North Devon. It is decorated in the slip ware tradition. Much of the original layer of slip (thin clay) on the surface of the jug has been worn away but you can now see how deeply the decorator has scratched into the surface to make the patterns and to incise the date and the initials T. D.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 89/1928/9
- Collection Class
- British ceramics
- Material
- earthenware | | | |
- Common Name
- puzzle jug
- Simple Name
- jug
- Inscription Transcription
- T + D 1789
- Period Classification
- George III (1760-1811)
- Production Town
- ? Ewenny
- Production County
- ? N. Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England; ? Wales
- Production Date
- c 1789
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- unk unk
- Production Year Low
- 1788
- Production Year High
- 1789
