Machin & Potts pottery jug, ‘scrapbook’ design, farming tools, cat, dog, c.1835

$325.00 AUD

White earthenware ‘Scrapbook’ jug, decorated inside & out with assorted prints with hand painted enamel colouring, including farming implements, cow, horse, chickens, cat, dog, deer, beehive, a large wheat sheaf beneath the spout.
Unmarked,
attributed to Machin & Potts,
circa 1835

13cm
some wear

The attribution to Machin & Potts is due to both shape & decoration; Shape is represented in a porcelain body (ref. ‘Machin’ p76-77) with the printed Machin mark, while the printed decoration is to be found on the following page, on a different shape earthenware jug – which shares the same pink lustre border.

In stock