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Blacking Pot

ca.1820-30 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Blacking pot of brown stoneware, of truncated conical form


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware
Brief description
Blacking-pot, stoneware, ca.1820-30, found in 1904 during excavations in Kingsway, London
Physical description
Blacking pot of brown stoneware, of truncated conical form
Dimensions
  • Height: 5cm
  • Diameter: 5.4cm
converted from register
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
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Object history
Found in 1904 during excavations in Kingsway, London, at the site of Day and Martin's Blacking Factory. Purchased.
Production
Robin Hildyard suggests Derbyshire as a possibly attribution for ware with this distinctive brown glaze
Bibliographic reference
Honey, W.B. 'Fallacies and Mistaken Attributions in English Ceramic Studies', E.C.C.Trans. Vol.2, No.10, 1948, p.244.
Collection
Accession number
1452F-1904

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Record createdJune 9, 2009
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