Luxor jug
Pottery: Howard Pottery Co.
Jug. Cream earthenware, moulded, with buff glaze, painted in dark bluish-green, yellow, orange, ochre, and brown enamels in 'Luxor' pattern.
Slender barrel-shaped body with flared neck, trilobate mouth and strap handle. Decorated with an intaglio and painted design comprising three horizontal bands: orange and green stylised plants separated by green triangles, downward pointing stylised leaves in yellow, orange and brown; and a horizontal stem of paired ochre leaves with green dots in the spaces. Between the bands there are wide brown horizontal bands with a narrow green band above each. The base and rim are enriched by an ochre band. The handle is green on the outside and edged in brown. The inside is glazed but unpainted. The underside is flat and glazed, with a slightly raised foot-rim.
History note: Uncertain before donor.
Given by Miss Valerie Sheldrake
Height: 28.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2003) by Sheldrake, Valerie
20th Century
Circa
1925
CE
-
1940
CE
The Howard Pottery Company manufactured earthenware products at Norfolk Street, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, from c.1925 until the 1970s, using the trade name ‘Brentleigh Ware’. A range of shapes in ‘Luxor’ pattern was announced, with illustration, in The Pottery Gazette and Glass Trade Review, following the trend for Egyptian designs inspired by Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922. The company was an exhibitor at the 1929 British Industries Fair, listed as ‘manufacturers of flowerpots, vases, clock-sets, rose bowls, bulb bowls, fernpots, candlesticks, floating bowls and birds, novelty bulb and flower holders, grotesque animals and figures’. At the 1947 they were listed as an exhibiting member of the British Pottery Manufacturers' Federation
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( dark bluish-green, yellow, orange, ochre, and brown)
Base
Diameter 12.8 cm
Including Handle
Width 22.7 cm
Moulding
: Cream earthenware, moulded, with buff glaze, painted in dark bluish-green, yellow, orange, ochre, and brown enamels.
Glazing
Inscription present: 'WENDA' and 'MADE IN ENGLAND' follow the circular shape of the base
Inscription present: (or 'K'?)
Accession number: C.1-2003
Primary reference Number: 83036
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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