Size:  17.5 cm diameter with handles, 16 cm the other way, external depth 5.5 cm.

Condition: Excellent condition.

This is a good example of Jane Hamlyn's classic pottery from the 1990s, hand thrown and then altered, with rouletted decoration and wheatear handles, painted with cobalt and titanium oxide slips to create the blue and silvery-green effect, and fired in a salt glaze kiln to about 1300 degrees centigrade. Eminently practical and lovely to handle and display. Jane's impressed stamp is below one handle.

Jane Hamlyn MBE (born 1940) is one of the leading modern pioneers of salt glaze revival ceramics in Britain.  Typical features of her work are thrown forms which are then altered and sometimes joined together, and the use of coloured slips to create different colour effects from the salt glaze finish, both of which are well represented in this jar and cover.  Her work is represented in major museums including the V & A. She was awarded and MBE in 2022 for services to pottery and ceramics.