Doulton jug by Hannah Barlow
Salt-glazed stoneware with animals scratched into the clay, signed by one of the factory’s first women artists.
Doulton at Lambeth employed students from the art school, and Hannah Barlow (1851–1916) became one of its best-known artists. She drew animals directly in the clay for forty years. Examples are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Materials: Salt-glazed stoneware, cobalt
Manufacture: The animals were incised in the leather-hard clay (sgraffito) and coloured with cobalt; salt thrown into the kiln made the glaze.
The quickly incised animals – sheep, horses, cats – in a few sure lines.
The monogram HBB and Doulton’s mark under the base.