| Description
| Buff high fired earthenware or stoneware flask, moulded in shape of pistol with a dark shiny brown crazed 'Rockingham' glaze. Long barrel with textured butt and detailed trigger. At least 3 single STILT marks on one side. See RG.1979.5 for second example. Believed to have been made by the Caledonian Pottery.
The Caledonian Pottery was founded in 1800 in the north of Glasgow, making items ranging from porcelain and creamware to stoneware and bricks. It is particularly know for producing a range of stoneware items and for teapots with a brown Rockingham glaze – the Ru’glen Broon. In 1872 the pottery moved to Rutherglen, a town to the east of Glasgow. In 1898 it was bought by the jam manufacturer W.P.Hartley to supply stoneware jam jars, but after the introduction of glass jars the pottery closed in 1928. Items may be marked with Townhead Pottery, Caledonian, Murray & Co, M & Co, Murray & Coupar, M & C, Murray & Fullarton, M & F or Murray. |
