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  • This blackware tyg was excavated at Brookhill Pottery, Buckley, where it was made c. 1640-1670. A tyg is an ornamental mug decorated with highly ornate handles. The dark colour is produced by coating the red earthenware clay with a lead glaze that contains iron. The area around Buckley has been associated with the production of pottery since the 13th or 14th centuries. Nineteen different pottery sites have been identified producing a wide range of ceramic wares in the six hundred year period up to the mid 20th century. In the 17th and 18th centuries, many of the wares produced were of high quality on a par with Staffordshire wares of the same date.
Blackware tyg with multiple ornate handles, made at Brookhill Pottery, Buckley, c.1640-1670
  • Puzzle jugs were designed to make it difficult for the drinker to drink from them, unless he/she knew their secret. When the jug was tilted all the holes but one had to be stopped up, or liquid flowing up the hollow handle would spill out in all directions. This puzzle jug features the following inscription: 'Gentlemen now try your Skill I'll hold your Sixpence if you Will That you dony drink unless you spill'. Source: Peter Davey, Buckley Pottery (Buckley Clay Industries Research Committee, 1975).
Puzzle jug, made at Buckley (19th century)
  • Puzzle jugs were designed to make it difficult for the drinker to drink from them, unless he/she knew their secret. When the jug was tilted all the holes but one had to be stopped up, or liquid flowing up the hollow handle would spill out in all directions. This puzzle jug features the following inscription on the body: 'Within this jug there is good liquor Fit for Parson or for Vicar But how to Drink and not to spill Will try the utmost of your skill'. 'Cymru am Byth' (Wales Forever) is inscribed on the bottom of the jug. Source: Peter Davey, Buckley Pottery (Buckley Clay Industries Research Committee, 1975).
Puzzle jug, made at Powell's Pottery, Buckley (19th century)
  • Horn cup from the 'Miner's Arms', Amlwch. The owner of the cup was possibly a copper miner who regularly drank in this public house.
Horn cup inscribed 'J. P. Jones, Miner's Arms, 1848. 'Y creigiau yw fy'm trigfanau' (The rocky places are my home)
  • These highly decorated silver cups were presented to the Anglesey Hunt by Thomas Peers Williams in 1824 to mark his term of office as Comptroller of the Hunt. They are both engraved with the words 'Llwydded Helwriaeth Môn' (Success to the Anglesey Hunt). The Anglesey Hunt boasts the title of being the oldest hunt in Britain: its earliest minute book dates back to 1757.
Two silver cups presented to the Anglesey Hunt, 1824
  • The Martin Brothers established their business as potters in west London during the 1870s. The firm produced only stoneware and each piece produced between 1873 and the closure of the company in 1915 was unique and individually signed and dated. Today, pieces made by the Martin Brothers are extremely collectable and valuable.
Pottery by Martin Brothers, 1890s