Our very handsome T G Green yellow banded Cornish kitchenware milk jug has a green shield stamp to its underside (see image) which dates it to c.1930. The yellow-banded ware is rarer than the classic blue.  It's a very pleasing object and a throughly useful friend in the kitchen - and in very good condition, considering its many years of toil.  

History

Cornish Ware by T. G. Green is recognised as one of the most classic and enduring designs of twentieth century kitchen pottery. Established in 1864 by Thomas Goodwin Green, when he purchased the Derbyshire pottery of Church Gresley, T G Green potteries started out by manufacturing utilitarian kitchen and table-wares for local demand only.  

The classic blue and white banded design was born as a result of the economic recession that followed the First World War. With factory workers in Church Gresley's white earthenware division down to a two-day week, further projects were urgently required. The result was Cornish Kitchenware, or Cornish Ware, as it became known. The yellow-banded variation followed later, in the 1930s.

The yellow-banded Cornish Ware was created by dipping the unfired pottery in yellow slip and then turning each piece on a lathe to remove bands of the slip, revealing the white body underneath. A clear glaze followed to make them watertight and suitable for kitchen use. It was named after the Cornish clay that was used in the making of the first pieces, a set of E. Blue jugs in 1922. The clay was brought to Derbyshire, as it helped "stick" the slip, the range initially being called E. Blue - Electric Blue. The idea of blue and white stripes representing the Cornish seaside was only used in advertising from 1949, and is a purely romantic idea that it gave birth to the Cornish Ware name.

Year of manufacture: c.1930

Manufacturer: T G Green

Origin: England

Material: Ceramic

Diameter base 11.5cm  Diameter spout to handle 15cm  

Condition: excellent