Blacking Pot
ca.1820-30 (made)
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Blacking pot of greenish-brown stoneware, of truncated conical form
Object details
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| 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 greenish-brown stoneware, of truncated conical form |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
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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. |
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| Accession number | 1452-1904 |
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| Record created | June 9, 2009 |
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