| Description
| Thrown stoneware mallet-shaped 'Free Masons' whisky jug with crazed thick but clear glaze, bluish in accumulation over deep/camel coloured body. Bell shaped with sloping shoulder to long cylindrical neck with swelling waist. Incised bands on neck. Masonic symbols sprigged on lower band of walls. (see RG.1978.484.b for stopper). Believed to be made by the Caledonian Pottery (no marks).
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. |
