Crinoline Lady Jug

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c. 1920 - 1940

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Overview

Bone coloured jug with transfer design of Crinoline Lady( facing right) on one side. The lady is wearing a layered yellow skirt trimmed in purple ribbon and flower motifs. Her yellow bonnet is trimmed with purple ribbon. She is wearing a green bodice with frilled sleaves and is carrying a basket of orange flowers. She is walking on a stone path surrounded by blue hollyhocks and orange flowers. The other side of the jug there is a transfer design of a garden sundial surrounded by blue Hollyhocks and orange flowers. There is a gold stripe around the jugs rim and base and decorative detailing on the handle.

Details in the original Museum Accession book describes as "China canary ornamental milk jug.( Dolly Vardon)"

Historical information

Falcon Ware is a brand of pottery founded by Thomas Lawrence in Staffordshire, England between 1885 and 1964 and this jug, in its original condition, is representative of the popular style,fashion and function of this piece of domestic equipment, manufactured between 1920 to 1940. It was owned by the Lord family, Alice and Wilfred and children Barbara, Joyce and Geoff, who left Halifax, England and moved to Group Settlement 44, Busselton in 1922.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2018.1

Item type

Objects

Themes

Social History

Material

Bone China

Width

10.5000 cm

Height or length

17 cm

Weight

655 g

Inscriptions and markings

Falcon Ware /
LG/
North Staffordshire

Contextual Information

This jug was donated by Barbara Lord, sister of Geoff Lord who was the inaugural President of the Busselton Historical Society in 1975 and instrumental in establishing the Butter Factory Museum. The jug is in its original condition and would have been used in the home between the 1920s and 1940s.

The Lord family arrived in the Busselton area in 1922 as one of the original Group settlement families. The Group Settlement scheme was a Western Australian/ United Kingdom government migration scheme introduced in 1921, to provide a labour force to develop agricultural land in the South West region of Western Australia, reduce unemployment in the United Kingdom and reduce dependence on food imports from interstate. Members of the Lord family have been active community members in the Busselton region since they arrived in 1922.

Keywords

Busselton -- Western Australia

China

Place made

Longton
Staffordshire
United Kingdom

Year

c. 1920 - 1940

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Historic significance

Links to additional resources

North Staffordshire Pottery Marks Thomas Lawrence