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ELLIOTT, Horace (Horace Elliot was a designer and dealer active at the end of the nineteenth century. As a keen member of the arts and crafts movement, he visited country potteries to acquire pots for his Bayswater showroom and to show at the various arts and crafts exhibitions in which he was involved.
He was particularly associated with Ewenny. He made annual visits there until 1913, often staying for a long time, and he designed many pieces for the Jenkins brothers to make. His fleur-de-lys mark was often applied to Ewenny and other wares.
Elliot's interest was not confined to Ewenny; he was associated with C H Brannam, Bourne Denby and other potteries of the day. He was a protagonist in the Esperanto movement, and sometimes inscribed his pots in that language.)
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.)
Jug, earthenware, circular flat base, inverted cone-shaped body with rounded shoulders and a narrow neck that flares out into a shaped rim, loop handle; brown body decorated with a transparent glaze, the handle and the top half of the jug are over-painted with a cream slip covered with a yellow glaze, the top half of the jug is incised with a linear border.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 38669
Creation/Production
ELLIOTT, Horace
Ewenny Pottery
Date: 1896 –
Acquisition
Gift, 6/10/1930
Measurements
Height
(cm): 8
diam
(cm): 9.3
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 3
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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