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Jug, pearl-glazed earthenware, goblular form, straight neck, plain spout, small thumbpiece to strap handle; decorated with a medallion under spout containing view of the ruin of the Hall at Caerphilly Castle with two figures; band of gilt foliage, flowers and insects to either side of medallion, gilt bands around medallion, around base and handle, above shoulder and around rim. Gilded decoration around upper part of neck of overlapping ovals and dots; gilt caillouté to spout, line of gilt husks along back of handle.

Named topographical views are rare on Swansea pottery of this period, and can generally be attributed either (as here) to Thomas Pardoe, the Cambrian Pottery’s chief painter between about 1790 and 1809, or to William Weston Young (employed there 1803-1806). This jug is closely similar to a jug painted by Pardoe with a view of Mumbles lighthouse in the National Museum’s collection and may even have been made as a pair to it.