William Greatbatch Creamware Fruit Basket Milk Jug & Cover, Mid-18th Century.

Staffordshire Creamware Fruit Basket Milk Jug & Cover.

Probably designed and made in Fenton, Staffordshire by William Greatbatch.

Circa 1765-70.

The creamware pear-shaped milk jug and cover with a molded fruit body to a reeded ground decorated in underglaze polychrome enamels and with a floral knop.  The fruits are mostly pineapples and grapes.

Dimension:  6 1/4 inches high

Reference: See a sugar bowl at the V & A with the same design, (C.273&A-1915)" This moulded pattern appears to have been unique to the potter and block-mould maker William Greatbatch.

This particular mould design has been identified from excavations on the William Greatbatch (1735-1813) pottery site at Lane Delph (now called Middle Fenton) as belonging to the last phase of his work, 1770-1782. Although most of these popular designs were made by several manufactures, the 'fruit basket' design seems to have been made exclusively by Greatbatch.
(https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O77901/sugar-bowl-greatbatch-william/)

Literature: David Barker “William Greatbatch a Staffordshire Potter” pp 242, pl 157.

An teapot is illustrated on p242, p157. Ross E Taggart “The Frank P. & Harriot C Towner English Pottery and Donald C. Towner” English cream coloured earthenware” pl 27B.

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