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Ewenny Pottery (There have been potteries at Ewenny in South Wales for hundreds of years. The two major companies producing in Ewenny today are the Ewenny Pottery and the Claypits Pottery. Ewenny Pottery is the younger, having been founded in 1815. Claypits is at least a hundred years older, possibly much more.
A Claypits apprentice, Evan Jenkins, set up the Ewenny Pottery and the company has stayed in the possession of the Jenkins family to the present day. Jenkinses were also involved with the management of Claypits Pottery.
The potteries of Ewenny were traditional country potteries using unsophisticated equipment and local materials. Naturally, around the turn of the century they found favour with followers of the Arts and Crafts movement, notably Horace Elliot, and this led to their work being seen by a wider circle of people.
Ewenny pots are usually in red clay with slip or mottled glaze decoration.)
Dish, earthenware, circular with high sides and a flattened rim, flat base; the interior is decorated with a brown glaze, the rim is banded with line borders and the central reserve is decorated with swirling lines in cream slip over-painted with a yellow glaze, the exterior and the base are unglazed.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 38667
Creation/Production
Ewenny Pottery
Date: 19th century (early) –
Acquisition
Source unknown, 1900
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.8
diam
(cm): 26.4
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 10
Techniques
hand-built
forming
Applied Art
slip-decorated
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
slip
Location
In store
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