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Luxor jug: C.1-2003

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Luxor jug

Maker(s)

Pottery: Howard Pottery Co.

Entities

Categories

Description

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.

Notes

History note: Uncertain before donor.

Legal notes

Given by Miss Valerie Sheldrake

Measurements and weight

Height: 28.8 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Shelton ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2003) by Sheldrake, Valerie

Dating

20th Century
Circa 1925 CE - 1940 CE

Note

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

School or Style

Art Deco

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( dark bluish-green, yellow, orange, ochre, and brown)
Base Diameter 12.8 cm
Including Handle Width 22.7 cm

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Cream earthenware, moulded, with buff glaze, painted in dark bluish-green, yellow, orange, ochre, and brown enamels.
Glazing

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: 'WENDA' and 'MADE IN ENGLAND' follow the circular shape of the base

  • Text: WENDA / LUXOR / MADE IN ENGLAND
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Impressed, or moulded on body
  • Type: Mark
  • Text: 44
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Incised
  • Type: Mark

Inscription present: (or 'K'?)

  • Text: R
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Painted in brown
  • Type: Mark

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1-2003
Primary reference Number: 83036
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 16 July 2020 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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