N° d'objet
60/26
Description
This is a small stoneware cream jug, for pouring cream. It has a small handle and shallow spout, and is glazed inside and out in green. It came from the University of Reading's Department of Dairying, probably when the Department was based on the Shinfield Estate, Reading.
Description physique
1 cream jug: stoneware; good condition
Historique d'archive
MERL miscellaneous note, Greta Bertram, 25 January 2013 – Objects 60/22–60/31 were all used by the ‘Department of Dairying’ at the University of Reading. The name of the department has changed several times over the years, as has its location. It began as the British Dairy Institute in 1888, and was based in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, until 1908. It later became the Department of Dairying and was based at the Shinfield Estate in Reading, which was purchased by the University in 1921. In 1982 it became the Dairy Unit of the Department of Food Sciences on the Whiteknights Campus in Reading. See ’The University of Reading, Department of Dairying, the history of an unusual university department over its first hundred years’ by James Rothwell for full details. A memo from Margaret Fuller at MERL to Miss A. Sheppard at the Department of Dairying in 1960 asks whether the three curd breakers (60/24/1–3), a wooden skimmer (annotated by Miss Sheppard as being a ‘butter scoop’) (60/25) and a large coopered item (annotated by Miss Sheppard as being a ‘Cheshire cheese mould’) (60/23) were used in the Department. Miss Sheppard has annotated that ‘all were used in the department when at Aylesbury between 1888–1908’., MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Standard museum name: … // Accession number: … // Classification: … // Negative number: … // Acquisition method: … // Acquired from: … // Date: … // Store: … // Condition: … // Recorder: KCS // Date: 22/3/94 // Description: White pottery with a green glaze inside and out. Small handle and very shallow spout. Two moulded lines below lip. Lines also down handle. Glaze varies in shade of green. // Dimensions: height 10cm. Width at top 5cm. Width at bottom 4.5cm. // Associated information: … // References: …'
Nom d'objet
Matériel
Technique
Document électronique
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