Earthenware small Jug with Ear of Wheat Motif
MakerMade by
Michael Cardew
(Wimbledon, London, England, 1901 - 1983)
MakerMade at
Winchcombe Pottery
(Winchcombe, England, founded 1926)
StudentTaught by
Bernard Leach
(Hong Kong, 1887 - 1979)
CollectorCollected by
Sandy Dunbar
(London, England, 1929 - 2012)
Datec. 1933
Object NameJug
Mediumearthenware
ClassificationsCeramics
DimensionsOverall (Height x Depth): 215 × 170mm
Handle to Spout (Width): 150mm
Base (Diameter): 90mm
Handle to Spout (Width): 150mm
Base (Diameter): 90mm
AcquisitionThe Sandy Dunbar Studio Ceramics Collection presented in 2023 by Crinan Dunbar and Rebecca Russell.
Copyright© the copyright holder
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDMS095708.24
About MeThis medium-sized earthenware jug has a bulbous body, short neck and loop handle with thumb rest. It is decorated around the body with a bent ear of wheat motif between double bands, scratched through the yellow slip to reveal the brown glaze below.
This is an early piece of Michael Cardew's work, made at Winchcombe Pottery, Gloucestershire. Cardew took over the disused Greet Pottery in 1926, running it as a rural pottery producing domestic wares. At Winchcombe Cardew also was instrumental in reviving the English slipware tradition, decorating his earthenware pottery with a creamy liquid clay known as slip. He employed Elijah Comfort, who had previously worked as a thrower at Greet Pottery and Sidney Tustin, who learned how to throw at the Winchcombe. They were later joined by Ray Finch who eventually took over Winchcombe Pottery after Cardew returned to Cornwall in 1939.
