| Description
| Storage jar. Straight sides with incurving shoulders to slightly flared neck and rounded everted rim. Shiny salt-glazed with dark honey-coloured iron slip over shoulders, neck and rim, spill over into interior of neck. Unglazed flat bottom. Clear salt-glaze in interior. No lid. Stamped: Caledonian Rutherglen 3. Believed to date from around the 1920s.
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. |
