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Lead-glazed jug with sgraffito decoration, 1784. The decoration is old-fashioned for its date and most of the motifs can be found on Staffordshire slip-ware dishes, which might be their source.

This is the work of a potter at Ewenny in the Vale of Glamorgan. Ewenny 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.

Dull yellow glaze over white slip; elaborate symmetrical decoration in sgraffito consisting of central double-eagle with outspread wings, on its breast a cartouche inscribed TI / 1784 with T + D above; on each side a 'hop flower', a crowned head, a crowned lion, a bird with a leafy branch; beneath handle 2 dogs chasing a fox.