A selection of PPP jugs
The PPP mark was used by Premier Pottery Preston from 1930 to 1934. For an account of PPP styles and history
click here. Most PPP pieces were made before shape-numbering was introduced in 1934, and then the PPP name was dropped soon after numbering began. Consequently, numbered PPP pieces are rare.
This page shows a selection of un-numbered pieces. Un-numbered examples of shapes that did acquire a number are catalogued with their numbered counterparts in the Early Series. The pictures here, therefore, mostly show jugs that were never assigned a number or for which a numbered example is still waiting to be discovered.
Cylinder jugs
No numbered example of this shape has yet been recorded.
The same shape was revived under wartime austerity rules as
Later Series 145.
Collection; Shepparton Art Gallery 1978.54
Height; 22 cm
Collection; Stuart Lawson
Height; 10 cm
Collection; John Stephens
The jug on the left is an exceptional piece, probably very early, showing an Australian homestead with verandah instead of the usual English cottage. 'PPP' on base is hand-painted not stamped.
Collection; John Stephens
Height; 5.8 cm (tiny!)
Hurnall's Antiques & Decorative Arts
Height; 12 cm.
Shapiro Auctioneers, Sydney
Coffee Pot
Height; 18 cm.
Faceted jug
A most unusual piece. The sides and base are eight-sided, not round like every other known PPP piece. How was it produced? Slip-casting seems out of the question; these potters did not adopt that technique until 25 years later in the 'A' Series / Kerryl range.
There would seem to be two possible explanations - either
1. The jug was wheel-thrown in the usual manner, then pressed or patted to shape; or
2. (More likely) in the earliest days of Premier Pottery, they bought in moulded blanks from one of the larger potteries in the area and applied their own decoration and glaze. Can anyone identify the shape as being from, say, Hoffman? - please
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Either way, the practice did not prevail. This is the only example yet recorded.
