Stoneware jar
Pearson and Co.
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Stoneware
Measurements
410 mm (Height); 215 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Chesterfield
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638734
Summary
A large stoneware bottle jar, the cylindrical body in an oatmeal glaze, the sloping shoulder, attached handle and neck in a caramel glaze. The flared flat-topped neck and the moulded handle modelled separately and attached. An impressed stamp and inscription both to the shoulder.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.
Marks and inscriptions
Below neck opposite handle: impressed, below neck opposite handle, ‘HENRY D. SIMPSON/ LOUTH/2. GALL’ and, in an oval stamp, ‘PEARSON & Co/ WHITTINGTON MOOR/ POTTERIES/ CHESTERFIELD
Makers and roles
Pearson and Co., potter