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Ewenny Pottery Lidded Trinket or Butter Dish – Welsh Studio Pottery

Ewenny Pottery Lidded Trinket or Butter Dish – Welsh Studio Pottery

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A small vintage Ewenny Pottery lidded dish, finished in the pottery's characteristic rich brown mottled glaze. The compact form makes it suitable as a trinket dish, butter dish or small covered serving piece.

Size: approximately 3.5 inches across.

In good vintage condition with no chips or cracks noted. Please see the photographs for full condition and detail.

Ewenny Pottery, founded in 1610 in the village of Ewenny, is the oldest working pottery in Wales. In the early 1800s Evan Jenkins married Mary, the daughter of then owner John Morgan, and so started the Jenkins family period of ownership that continues to this present day

In the early 1900s, David John Jenkins was born into the family business. After working with his father in the pottery and uncles at the claypits, he married Martha Arthur whose family had owned the Corntown Pottery, with whom he had seven children.

After buying the Ewenny Pottery from his cousin Edwin II, he invented the classical mottled-glazing technique that is still used by the pottery today. The piece is firstly dipped completely in one glaze, and then splashed with a second glaze. David John Jenkins created the technique as he had noticed that thanks to the railways, there were many more visitors travelling into the countryside looking for a unique and original memento of their excursion


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