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‘RURAL LOVERS’ (Fig. 14)
The mug shown is printed in greenish-black with one of the Cambrian
‘Corn and Husk’ borders. The pattern was attributed to Rothwell by
Grant-Davidson, and P. D. Pryce and S. H. Williams.
A jug in Cardiff Museum was donated by E. Morton Nance; this jug had
two incised circle marks and the under-glaze blue painted ‘X’ mark. Nance
writes in his book that Plate X.B. (‘Rural Lovers’) also bears the same in
side border identical to the inside border on the smaller black printed jug
illustrated in Plate IX.B.; this is the ‘Betsey Berriman’ jug which had three
under-glaze blue dots in a triangular form. The borders on both jugs were
the ‘Corn and Husk’, a very early border, although the ‘Betsey Berriman’
jug is dated 1804.
We believe the border engravings and first coppers of ‘Rural Lovers’ were
made by Thomas Rothwell much earlier than 1804 so perhaps the
popularity of the pattern resulted in it being remade by another engraver in
the style of Thomas Rothwell and used in 1804 and perhaps even later.
Fig. 14
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