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In 1672, John Dwight set up a pottery in Fulham. He became the first Englishman to make stoneware, produced by firing clay at very high temperatures. He copied Rhineland Frechen and Westerwald wares which were imported into England. In 1676, the Glass Sellers’ Company agreed to buy the whole of his stoneware production for three years. In the 1970s, excavations at Fulham revealed the extent of Dwight’s wares and experiments.

This stoneware piece imitates a Westerwald jug. It has a neck cordon, globular body and foot ring with longtitudinal strips of applied decoration, coloured with both cobalt and manganese slip. The handle and large parts of the body are missing.