Doulton Lambeth Jug with Hand Created Incised Spirals and Ribbing, c. 1900

An unusual hand-thrown Doulton Lambeth jug with a body of hand created incised spirals and a border of applied leaves, framed by a ribbed base and neck in a dark chocolate glaze. The jug is marked Doulton Lambeth England on the base. This mark was used from c. 1891. The decorator’s mark is indecipherable.

The jug is in excellent condition

John Doulton and John Watts set up Doulton & Watts in Lambeth, South London, in 1815 producing saltglazed stoneware. When Watts retired in 1853, John was joined by his brother Henry Doulton and became Doulton & Co. The production of art pottery started around the end of the 1860s and grew considerably during the next two decades. In 1878 the company bought an existing pottery works in Nile Street, Burslem, Staffordshire, to make pots for decoration at the Lambeth works. In 1901 they became Royal Doulton Ltd.