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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.)
Jug, slipware, red earthenware with yellow lead glaze, flat base, tall tapering cylindrical body, long straight handle curving over at the top to join the flared lobed rim; sgraffito decoration of stylised hop flowers and leaves.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 39014
Creation/Production
Ewenny Pottery
Elliott, Horace
Date: 1905 –
Acquisition
Gift, 12/12/2007
Given by Anthony Stokes and Caitlin Jenkins, 2007
Measurements
Height
(cm): 44.1
Width
(cm): 21.6
diam
(cm): 13.5
Height
(in): 17
Width
(in): 8
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
sgraffito
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
slip
glaze
Location
In store
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