CLAY PITS POTTERY, EWENNY
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CLAY PITS POTTERY, EWENNY
WASSAIL BOWL & COVER, 1895
red earthenware, thrown, white slip under yellow lead-glaze, incised decoration and with incised inscriptions to cover A MERRY CHRISTMAS/ CYMRU LAN GWLAD-Y-GAM (Wales Land of Song)/ FEED THE CHICKENS/ BIRD ON THE WHEAT/ CYMRU DROO BYTH (Wales Forever)/ THIRSTY/ LET ME TAP IT/ GIVE YOUR WIFE A GLASS/ FOX/ OES Y BYD I'R IAITH GYMRAEG (Long Live the Welsh Language), dated to base 1895
40cm high
Provenance: The Collection of Michael Archer OBE FSA (1936-2022), Keeper, Ceramics and Glass Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Literature: See Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge collection accession no. C.100 & A-1928 for a similar example marked to the base 'Made by Evan Jones/at Clay Pitts Pottery/Bridgend/May 1892'
WASSAIL BOWL & COVER, 1895
red earthenware, thrown, white slip under yellow lead-glaze, incised decoration and with incised inscriptions to cover A MERRY CHRISTMAS/ CYMRU LAN GWLAD-Y-GAM (Wales Land of Song)/ FEED THE CHICKENS/ BIRD ON THE WHEAT/ CYMRU DROO BYTH (Wales Forever)/ THIRSTY/ LET ME TAP IT/ GIVE YOUR WIFE A GLASS/ FOX/ OES Y BYD I'R IAITH GYMRAEG (Long Live the Welsh Language), dated to base 1895
40cm high
Provenance: The Collection of Michael Archer OBE FSA (1936-2022), Keeper, Ceramics and Glass Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Literature: See Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge collection accession no. C.100 & A-1928 for a similar example marked to the base 'Made by Evan Jones/at Clay Pitts Pottery/Bridgend/May 1892'
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CLAY PITS POTTERY, EWENNY
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