| Description
| Earthenware storage jar or crock pot, with clear glaze body and honey-coloured glaze on shoulders and neck. Has stamped festoon decoration round lower part of body, and over shoulder and neck. Applied handle lugs. Stamped 1/2 and GROSVENOR/ GLASGOW. This signifies that it was made at the Eagle Pottery in Bridgeton, Glasgow. Decorated lid with knob.
The Eagle Pottery was founded as the Bridgeton Pottery by Frederick Grosvenor in 1869. Grosvenor had previously been a partner in the Caledonian Pottery and patented several improvements in the making of stoneware as well as expanding the Pottery to have twelve kilns. The pottery closed in 1923, as the demand for stoneware declined. The Eagle Pottery produced domestic and commercial stoneware and earthenware teapots and jugs. Items may be marked Grosvenor, Grosvenor & Son or with an impressed eagle. |
