As some of you know, the major focus of this summer's research and reading has been slugs, snails, and scale (yes, I've moved on from lichen for a while ...). So this leads me, necessarily, to consider the ornamental uses to which they've been put: as the basis of design for jewelry, fabrics, pottery ... Of course, this propels me (procrastination, procrastination) to research-on-ebay ... So I was very pleased to get back to my USC office today, and find this snail-and-ivy Art Deco jug waiting for me (I wish, of course, it were a slug jug, because that would rhyme). I think that it's Burleigh Ware, from the Middleport Pottery, in Stoke on Trent, and from the 1930s: I have a soft spot for Burleigh Ware, especially for the work that Charlotte Rhead did for them (I have a Rhead jug that I was lucky enough to find - many years ago - in an Oxfam shop in Oxford). OK, it may not be to everyone's taste, but I'm very pleased with this piece of snailery.
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