| Description
| Ceramic ware 2 pint hot water bottle, Caledonian Pottery. Stamped 'CALEDONIAN/ RUTHEGLEN/ 3' and '2'. Has transfer - NOTICE/ HEAT THIS BOTTLE/ BEFORE FILLING IT/ WITH BOILING WATER. Moulded with pale cream slip and clear glaze on body, but one end with knob handle has brown slip with clear glaze. Moulded leaf pattern round filling hole. No stopper.
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. |
