Size:  8.5 cm across rim, 12.5 cm tall, belly 12 cm wide. A milk jug.

Condition: Very good condition.  There are bubbles to the glaze as mentioned in the description.

This jug was made by William Fishley Holland, part of an important family of potters who worked in Devon and Somerset from the early 19th century to the late 20th century, and who were part of a wider Devonshire tradition of slipware pottery which currently boasts potters like Clive Bowen.

This mug dates from William Fishley Holland's days at the Dunster Pottery at which he worked with his son George and others from 1959.  The jug is thinly and delicately thrown, not surprising for a potter who taught the young Michael Cardew to throw.  At Dunster they developed the manganese and blue glazes used on this jug, but the decoration of this jug is a bit unusual in using a resist of natural leaves to create the pattern in the glaze - usually decoration was slip trailed or painted.

Unfortunately the glaze on this jug has not worked out too well, with a lot of blistering from probably excess temperature.  it would probably have been sold as a second.  It is still a serviceable item and attractive in a rustic way.

The jug carries William Fishley Holland's signature incised on the base.