© Wakefield Art Gallery
Pearlware jug
Artist: studio of Josiah Wedgwood (1730 - 1795)
Location: Wakefield Art Gallery
Date: 1796
Materials: pearlware
Dimensions: 19 x 15 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £400 (Total: £480)
Review number: 3147 (1985)
Description:
Pearlware is an improved type of creamware containing a larger quantity of flint and white clay in the body and cobalt added to the glaze to counteract the creamy tone. Stamped on the base: 'Wedgwood & Co, made by Tomlinson, Foster Wedgwood and Co of Ferrybridge', the period when Ralph, nephew of Josiah, was working there. The jug is inscribed James Bouskil, Bardsea, 1796.
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