Object number
M.57.W.87
Title
Leeds Creamware Jug
Date
1906 - 1910
Creator
Production notes
marketer : SleeThe original Leeds Potttery factory closed in 1878, but was re-opened by James Wraith in 1888 and the old moulds re-used
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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)
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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.
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