A selection of PPP jugs
(For PPP shapes other than jugs, click here.)

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;
Stuart Lawson
    Height;  12 cm
Collection; Michael West  
auspottery.com
   Height; 12 cm
Collection;
Brendan Pitcher
Height; 12.5 cm

Height;  15 & 11.5 cm
Collection; Shepparton  Art Gallery 1978.54
Height; 22 cm
Collection; Stuart Lawson
       Height;  10 cm
See Early Series 119

Isabella House, NW Vic.
Flagon
Height;  15 cm
Height 7.4 cm
Height 8 cm.
Height; 8.5 cm
Height; 8 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!)
Height; 10 cm.
Height; 9.2 cm.
 
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Hurnall's Antiques & Decorative Arts
Height; 12 cm.
Shapiro Auctioneers, Sydney
Coffee Pot
Height; 18 cm.
Youngs Auctions -
The Berry Collection
Height 11 cm.
Faceted jugs
The sides and base of these jugs are octagonal, not round like every other known PPP piece, and the handle and spout are unlike Premier's style. They appear to have been produced in moulds, a technique not used by Premier except for press-moulded gumleaves and the like. (Slip-casting was eventually adopted but not until 25 years later in the 'A' Series / Kerryl range.)

The most likely explanation is that, 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 contact us!

It seems the practice did not prevail. These are the only two examples yet recorded.
Collection; Steve Fraser
Height; 9 cm.
Hurnall's Antiques & Decorative Arts
Height; 13 cm.