A very rare 1866 piece of Staffordshire. The classic blue and white jug, likely designed as a cream pitcher, is is inscribed "Welch Presbyterian Chapel, Fitz Clarence Street Liverpool 1866."
Made by Davenport for Staffordshire, it commemorates the opening of the Welsh Presbyterian Church in Everton designed by Richard Owens [1864]. In the 19th century, Liverpool had become home to a large Welsh community. The community, which numbered around 70,000 by the end of the 1800s, built over 90 places of worship.
Measures just over 5.5 inches in height, and is in a very fine state of preservation with only minor abrasions at the extremities of the rim and base. Very attractive.
The only other example we trace is in the National Museum at Liverpool [Here]
