| Description
| Thrown treacle-coloured storage jar. Made by the Caledonian Pottery, believed to be a butter pot. With salt glaze and honey coloured iron slip extending from rim to upper walls. Flat base, no foot rim, straight sided walls, short trumpet neck. Flanked by two handles applied to wall surfaces. Roulette bands of decoration. Mark 'Caledonian Rutherglen 7 & 2'; label: Butter Pot Dutch Shape 2pt. (see RG.1978.500.b for lid)
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. |
