Description:

The print on this piece depicts a Chinoiserie landscape, including a bridge on which two figures are standing.  The body and glaze of this hybrid-hard-paste porcelain milk jug and cover are typical of the New Hall factory.  However, the kinked handle and spherical knop are not typical.  A similar jug in Truro Museum bears a mark of a rampant lion with a coronet.  This mark is present on a number of pieces that, although very similar to New Hall, differ from the established wares of the factory in a number of ways, primarily in shape.  This has led to the suggestion that such wares may have been made at a different factory and recently it has been suggested that this might have been Enoch Wood's.  (See Roger Pomfret Northern Ceramic Society Journal volumes 12 & 27).

This jug was illustrated by Kit Holgate in Northern Ceramic Society Journal volume 6, who noted that it had once been in the Geoffrey Grey Collection.  She also suggested that the kinked handle could be a link with the Bristol factory.

The pattern on this jug is also known on earthenwares produced by a number of different potteries.  The pattern name Conversation has been applied to these (see TCC data base).  It should be noted, however, that the name Conversation has also been used to describe a completely different pattern used on Caughley porcelain (see The Caughley Society's Caughley Blue & White Patterns (2012) E13).