Featured Large Moulded Wash Jug Fishing Nets

Discussion in 'Pottery, Glass, and Porcelain' started by John Brassey, Jul 3, 2025.

  1. John Brassey

    John Brassey Well-Known Member

    I bought this big jug today. It stands 26cm tall and is finely moulded with fishing nets and stencilled with fish in light blue. There’s a diamond registration mark but it’s glazed over. There’s also a small impressed mark. IMG_2490.jpeg IMG_2492.jpeg IMG_2493.jpeg IMG_2494.jpeg

    I would describe it as Aesthetic period.

    Any thoughts on the maker?
     
  2. charlie cheswick

    charlie cheswick Well-Known Member

    never seen anything like it but its a brilliantly quirky piece, would have a guess at minton for some reason

    my stepdad was a salmon net fisherman, and believe that to be what the decor is anyway
     
  3. mirana

    mirana Well-Known Member

    I really love the unique sculpt on this. The net is so well done. That maker had a great eye...whoever they were. :confused:
     
  4. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    now that's the crazing to look for......nice and authentic.... nice water jug !!!!!!!!!!
     
  5. Chinoiserie

    Chinoiserie Well-Known Member

    Do you think the painted fish are original? The lozenge would be the key to everything. Perhaps have a look in different lights and angles to make out the letters and numbers. Maybe the small imprinted mark is a mintons year mark?
     
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  6. Chinoiserie

    Chinoiserie Well-Known Member

  7. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    IMG_9989.jpeg IMG_9992.jpeg I have this similar net design on this chamber pot, unfortunately again the diamond is glazed over.
     
  8. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    Just noticed an impressed mark which I originally thought was just a squiggle, JD ?
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  9. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    Mine might be by John Dimmock. Maybe yours is too?
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  10. Iconodule

    Iconodule Well-Known Member

    I am no expert, but could it be Staffordshire ironstone? I have a chamber pot with the same shape registration mark, except mine can be read and shows a registration date of June 8,1883, indicated by the M (June), K (1883), and 8 for the day. (Source for reading registration mark: Geoffrey A. Godden, Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks, rev. ed. 1991, pp. 526-527.) The pot was produced by Henry Alcock & Co. of Cobridge, Straffordshire, England.

    The relief design & handle, although clearly different patterns, remind me of my ironstone coffee pot that say it slowly identified as Hidden Motif by Thomas Furnival's pottery, also at Cobridge. (This does not have a registration mark, but a stamped royal arms mark.)

    Oops-I was working on this post & missed Houseful's with the same embossed pattern from John Dimmock, also from the Stoke-on-Trent, Straffordshire, area
    (https://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/353.htm). So all the suggestions center on the same area, but Houseful found the exact pattern. Very good! Alcock registr mark-Jan 8-1883 635ppi.jpg Alcock-chamber pot bottom 600ppi.jpg Alcock chamber pot1 600ppi.jpg Ironstone pitcher-maple1sm.jpg
     
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  11. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    The above is fascinating.

    Debora
     
  12. John Brassey

    John Brassey Well-Known Member

    Thank you everyone. I'm pretty sure that it is Dimmock.
    Yes thank you very much for this. I am sure that you are right. Dimmock it is. Thanks to all who helped.
     
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