| Description
| Slab built hot water bottle or foot warmer. Light buff/white body, bubbly shiny salt glaze. Rectangular base, horse-shoe shaped body, flat ends one with mushroom finial. Screw stopper with black material attached to act as buffer between stopper and body. 4 incised decorative motifs round circular opening at top. Impressed mark: 'Caledonian Rutherglen 5' and '1 1/2', presumably to denote pint capacity. Stopper, finial and open end dipped in brown iron slip. Label in bottom of item reads 'Foot warmer 1 1/2 pt'.
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. |
