Medieval Jug with Ash Glaze

£130.00
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Traditional medieval-style English jug, with a capacity of approximately 2 litres / 3.5 pints. Light enough to be poured at the dinner table, but equally suitable for holding flowers as a decorative piece.

Thrown on the wheel with an iron-rich stoneware clay, glazed with an alkaline ash glaze - a traditional North Carolinian recipe which uses only ash, ground glass and clay, in this case a sandy earthenware dug from my street in Stoke-on-Trent during gas works.

The usually pale green glaze has been applied thickly, becoming a rich, cream, opaque glass with hints of opalescent blue, forming long vertical streaks down the jugs surface.

Fired in the gas kiln in a reduction atmosphere.

Capacity: 2l / 3.5 pints

Dimensions: 14×29cm

Weight: 1.5kg

Traditional medieval-style English jug, with a capacity of approximately 2 litres / 3.5 pints. Light enough to be poured at the dinner table, but equally suitable for holding flowers as a decorative piece.

Thrown on the wheel with an iron-rich stoneware clay, glazed with an alkaline ash glaze - a traditional North Carolinian recipe which uses only ash, ground glass and clay, in this case a sandy earthenware dug from my street in Stoke-on-Trent during gas works.

The usually pale green glaze has been applied thickly, becoming a rich, cream, opaque glass with hints of opalescent blue, forming long vertical streaks down the jugs surface.

Fired in the gas kiln in a reduction atmosphere.

Capacity: 2l / 3.5 pints

Dimensions: 14×29cm

Weight: 1.5kg