Featured Wedgwood Identification help please

Hi everyone

I wonder if anyone could identify / date this Wedgwood pattern? This is a small jug about 12cm tall.

It’s a raised leaf pattern in pink and black.

The base is impressed Wedgwood and there may be two letter marks to the left of it.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Paul

 

Nice piece, not something I have seen before. The style looks early 20th century, however that mark looks a fair bit older (and there is no England). I will check my Wedgwood books a bit further and see if I can find it.

 

Thank you for your reply and your help.

My thoughts were 1920s in style but the mark and thoughts from another collector was mid-late 19th century.

Do you assume it’s part of a china tea set?

Thanks again

Paul

 

Only potential reference I could find is in Reilly & Savage - Leafage Ware, pearlware jugs overlapping leaves and decorated with enamel lines and washes 1810-30. Description seems about right, but no pics to confirm.

 

It really is lovely.
I will tag some more people for you: @say_it_slowly , @John Brassey , @Ownedbybear .

 

Thank you again. I’ve now got a direction to go in.

I’ve seen a Leafage Pearlware jug without the pink and black detailing which is in the same form so i’ll try and locate this unusual colour design.

Thanks for your speedy expertise.
Paul

 

Thank you, that’s really appreciated.

Paul

 

Similar looking items from a set here:

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5337011

A cream jug from a dessert service makes sense, Christies suggest a little later than Reilly & Savage but do not give a reference for it.

 

That’s great, very similar in style. I wonder if the pink and black design was for a hotel or similar commercial purposes.

Regards

Paul

 

I prefer Paul's, with that salmony pink.

 

very good, salmony pink is exactly the colour.

 

Lovely!!

 

Thank you!

 

Victoria and Albert Museum has a creamer of the same mold as drabware. Unfortunately very little additional info.

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1565827/jug/

 

Well found, the drabware is generally indicative of the 1st half of the 19th century.

 

I'm not so fond of the term drabware as it covers more than one type of material. I am wondering if the interior of this jug is white or if it might be a bit aqua. My early Wedgwood "drabware" cup and saucer have the pale aqua interior.

 

That’s is very interesting, the drabware jug is very similar indeed.

The interior of the pink jug is an off-white.

Paul

 

As it turns out, thanks to this Worthpoint listing that gives a reference, I have more information than I thought I did.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/wedgwood-relief-moulded-leafage-jug-424884754
They mention a book I don't have if anyone else does. "Refer also to Henrywood's Relief Moulded Jugs page 51 for a larger illustration which dates the jug to c1807."

I do have this from Godden's British Pottery and Porcelain book, a catalog page from 1817. I believe it calls it a Leafage or Leafiage (?) jug available in drab, cane or white.

 

That is fabulous information, thank you very much, very interesting indeed.

The piece is earlier than I had imagined, do you imagine this could have been finished in pink / black at a later date?

Regards

 

That paint job looks awfully good and it's a really pretty jug. I'd be thinking that Wedgwood gussied up and older design at a much later date. Pink and black was a hot combination in the 1950s and no doubt at earlier times too. 1920s I think. It would make perfect sense for new colors to be made 100 years after original production.