A highly-skilled painter at the Cambrian Pottery in Wales decorated the surface of the commemorative jug seen in this case. The image of the tiger, a species not native to the British Isles, was not drawn from life but rather taken directly from George Shaw’s popular volume of natural history.
Images from George Shaw
General Zoology or
Systematic Natural History
Vols. 1 and 2, London, 1800–01
Watercolor by Anna Pankratz, 2008