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Leeds Creamware Jug



Date:
1906 - 1910
Object Number:
M.57.W.87
Creator
James Wraith Senior (potters)
Production notes
marketer : Slee
Material
ceramic, creamware, prattware
Object name
jug
Object category
tableware ceramics

Description

Leeds, Creamware jug. Baluster form. Strap handle with purple highlight. Floral decoration to rim. Three sprigged figures on cream base. Hand coloured, rose jackets, black top hats and shoes with names below, Fuller Pilch, Wm. Clark (sic), and Box. Maker’s mark on base, stamped: Leeds Pottery. Marketed by Slee of Leeds (unverified HL)

Display caption

Leeds Pottery Jugs 1906-15 Jugs like this were made by James Wraith Senior and his son, George William Senior, in the first decade of the present century. The figures in relief are sprigged on from Staffordshire moulds after engravings of Fuller Pilch, William Lillywhite and Thomas Box. However, on the Leeds jugs Lillywhite had been renamed William Clark(e). E.R. Wilson bequest, 1957.
Association:
Fuller Pilch
Box
Wm. Clark
Related objects:
M.44.1 : Leeds Creamware Jug
M.2015.588 : Pilch, Lillywhite, Box and Corbett