Vintage Ruth Elder Tasmania pottery jug 1970s acorn Design: It features a screw

Design: It features a screw mechanism within a sturdy triangular frame

Because they are handmade and hand painted in Spain by some of the world's greatest porcelain artisans (or so the website tells me)

In delightful condition

It's so fabulously quirky

Vintage Ruth Elder Tasmania pottery jug 1970s acorn Design: It features a screwLovely Vintage Ruth Elder Tasmania Pottery Jug Circa late 1970s Ruth Elder (1948) was born in London where she trained at the Harrow School of Art. In 1975, she migrated to Australia, working as a journeywoman for five months with John Edye at Sturt Pottery before moving to Tasmania the following year and setting up a workshop at Lower Wattle Grove. There she specialised in raw glazed stoneware and porcelain and by the time of her entry in the 1981