2003/15/17

This small cylindrical stoneware pot is a cream pot. It is glazed in an off-white colour, which is now heavily crazed. It has an inscription in brown reading 'Devonshire Clotted Cream', above which is a logo showing entwined 'C's. This is one of a collection of cream pots collected by Edwin Cyril Nemuel Nevill. Nevill started his collection in 1969 after his retirement and continued to acquire pots whilst living in Winterbourne Stoke and Salisbury in Wiltshire, and later in Perth, Western Australia.

Small, cylindrical stoneware pot with lip at top & bottom. Off white glaze which is heavily crazed. Inscription in brown: 'Devonshire Clotted Cream'. Above which is a symbol incorporating two C's. '£7' written on white label a base. 8x9 x 6x1cm (height x diameter at rim). Good condition, though crazed and a little discoloured.

MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'CREAM POTS // Description // 90 cream pots: // All but one is in pottery. Various shapes, sizes, inscriptions, colours, etc.. // For detailed descriptions of each pot, see attached sheets. // ... Associated information // Edwin Cyril Nemuel Nevill 1909-2001 - Cream Pot Collector // ECN Nevill, always known as Nim, did not start collecting Cream Pots until after his retirement from local government in 1969 after moving from London to Winterbourne Stoke in Wiltshire. In the beginning he was a fairly casual collector only buying whan he happened to see one however he soon became more interested and started attending antique and bottle fairs. When he and his wife Mary moved to Salisbury in 1976 they had the perfect background to the growing collecting, a terraced Victorian house with alcoves in which to display them. By the time he stopped collecting he had in the space of 8 years gathered together around 150 pots. // In 1984 he and his wife emigrated to Perth, Australia, where their younger son lived. Already in their seventies he soon felt the need to move to a retirement village which meant down sizing the family home. Unable to find anyone interested in purchasing his cream pots he shipped them back to England for his elder son to dispose of. Unfortunately the collecting boom for cream pots appeared to have passed. An American collector living in Pittsburgh bought some of the rarer ones, the rest have been sitting collecting dust in an old tin trunk. // After Nim's death in 2001 his son felt that it would be a nice memorial to his father to donate the collection to a museum. // June 2003.', MERL miscellaneous note - 'Cream Pots - Acc. No. 2003/15/1-90 // 17. Small, cylindrical stoneware pot with lip at top & bottom. Off white glaze which is heavily crazed. Inscription in brown: 'Devonshire Clotted Cream', above which is this symbol/logo - [pencil sketch]... 8.9 x 6.1cm (height x diameter at rim). Good condition, though crazed and a little discoloured.'

Ceramic, stoneware, Glaze

Fired, Glazed