A Caughley mask head jug transfer-printed with the Conversation pattern, circa 1782-93, unmarked, 14.3cm high Provenance: Wright Collection no.577, purchased in 1998 from Swift. The Conversation pattern is one of the rarer landscape patterns, occurring occasionally on larger mask head jugs but only very rarely on smaller ones. This is the only one that Maurice Wright has seen. Literature: Ironbridge 1999 no.263.