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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Pig jug with sgraffito inscription. Made at Ewenny Pottery by David Jenkins and Horace Elliot, 1890. Elliot was a London artist who visited the pottery annually between 1883 and 1913.
Ewenny in the Vale of Glamorgan has a long tradition of making pottery. All the materials were at hand - red clay, glaze materials to finish the wares, stone to build the kilns and coal to fire the pots. There have been 15 potteries in the area at one time or another. Now there are only two. One family, the Jenkinses, has carried on the tradition for over 8 generations.
Jug in form of pig, with tubular spout representing the snout, & thin cylindrical handle applied in an S-curve the tail. Thick yellow glaze, varying from shiny to matt, over white slip; sgraffito inscription. (Design registered by Horace Elliott at Board of Trade, Jan 1890).
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