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Michael Cardew
Early jug
circa 1924
Earthenware, cream slip with carved inscription beneath a clear brown glaze.
20.9 x 23 x 19.5 cm (8 1/4 x 9 x 7 5/8 in.)
Impressed with artist's and Leach Pottery seals.
Full-Cataloguing
Michael Cardew was Bernard Leach’s first apprentice at the Leach Pottery, St. Ives. Having began his apprenticeship in 1923, this early jug is a type influenced by the traditional Devon ‘Harvest Jugs’ and was a form Cardew continued to make after establishing his own kiln at Winchcombe in the Cotswolds in 1926.