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Leeds Creamware Jug



Date:
1906 - 1910
Object Number:
M.44.1
Creator
James Wraith Senior
Production notes
There is another example of this jug with figures arranged differently marketer : Slee, W.
Material
pottery
Size
ht: 7 ins
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, tomato red jackets, black top hats and shoes with names below, Fuller Pilch, Wm. Clark (sic), and Box.

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:
W. Clark
Box
Fuller Pilch
Related objects:
MCC/AAL/2/TEMP221 : Curator's correspondence relating to jugs in the MCC Collection
M.57.W.87 : Leeds Creamware Jug
M.2015.588 : Pilch, Lillywhite, Box and Corbett