Scottish Pearlware Prattware jug  Pratt Ware relief moulded  Early 19th Century  circa 1820

This jug was featured in a 1980s Millers Antiques Price guide and was described as Scottish pottery

Condition:  Small chips on top edge - see pics.

History: What is Pratt Ware or Prattware? The name Pratt is associated with much confusion. Pratt Ware historically is the name associated with relief decorated, underglaze painted creamware and pearlware made from about 1780 to 1840. This light density earthenware was the standard body of the period. The name relates to a family of potters working in Lane Delph in The Potteries in the late eighteenth century and at Fenton after 1807. The generic link to the type has been made because of the existence of two early jugs, both marked PRATT, but it was made by many other potters in Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Liverpool, Tyneside, Wearside, Devon and on the east and west coasts of Scotland. Today these fine relief-moulded earthenwares are quite rare and can really only be found through specialist dealers or at ceramics fairs. 

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