A modified version of Wedgwood's "Club" shape jug -- its profile exaggerated and its body...
A modified version of Wedgwood's "Club" shape jug -- its profile exaggerated and its body grown more bulbous -- provides the ground for a fantasy artifact of the ancient Mediterranean. The red stoneware body is enameled in black, white and a red very close in tone to the body itself.
Against a black field a three figure frieze has been created. In the center is a stylized swallow, the feathers of its splayed wings creating a rhythmic pattern. The bird is flanked on each side by a crouching sphinx. The girlish head and torso tops almost bird-like front feet and is joined to leonine hind-quarters. From their shoulders arch curled wings, adorned with an abstract pattern of rows of white dots.
The elaborate impressed mark on the base not only declares that this is "The Egyptian Jug," but also that it is sold exclusively by Woollard & Hattersley of Cambridge.