| Description
| Slab built small hot water bottle, or hand/foot warmer. Light buff/white body, bubbly shiny salt glaze. Rectangular base, horse-shoe shaped body, flat ends with single finial at one end. Screw stopper, 4 moulded foliate open palmettes applied round opening at top. Oval impressed mark: 'Caledonian Rutherglen 5'. Stopper, finial and open end dipped in brown iron slip. Label: 'Miniature Foot Warmer flat' [no longer attached]. Probably dating to 1920s.
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. |
