Brownfield Stoneware Fern & Wheat Jug
$179.00
1850-1870. Brownfield stoneware traces its roots to 1836, when British potter William Brownfield partnered with Noah Robinson and John Wood to take over the Cobridge Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Renowned for highly collectible relief-molded jugs.
William Brownfield with a rope handle and decorated with fern fronds, wheat, and gilding. Bottom with factory molded mark of Brownfield and registration mark.
See engraving that shows jug from period print 1878.
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Description
Fern jug, smear-glazed stoneware painted in enamels.
Brown version in V&A Museum: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O151039/fern-jug-brownfield-william/
According to the V&A:
“Despite the prodigious production of relief-moulded jugs, relatively little is known about William Brownfield, the owner of the factory from 1850 until his death in 1873. He registered a large number of designs, and the factory, which under his two sons retained his name, continued to do this after his death. By 1883 at least 27 new designs for Brownfield jugs had been thus protected. The production of jugs of all types, both relief-moulded and plain, was clearly a Brownfield staple; there is evidence in a catalogue published in about 1876 of at least 48 different designs.”
Brownfield was awarded a medal in the International Exhibition of 1862 for “printed earthenware.”
Size: 8″H x 4.5″W handle to spout.
Condition note: chips to foot, see photo.
