N° d'objet
60/112
Créateur
Description
This is a pottery drinking trough for poultry. It has a brush-painted, brown, lithage glaze which was made by boiling lead. It was made some time before 1930 by A. Harris and Sons at the Wrecclesham Potteries in Surrey.
Description physique
1 drinking trough, pottery
Historique d'archive
Memo, T. Barry Davies (School of Fine Art, University of Reading) to MERL, 6 May 1960 – ‘Chicken Water Feeder // This vessel, which had been unsold for years because it was damaged, was probably made before 1930 at the “rural” Pottery of Messrs. A.Harris and Sons, which is still active (1960.) // (The Pottery turns out a variety of ware, including plant pots, seed pans, drainpipes, etc., and uses some interesting methods of production). This vessel is brush-painted with a lithage glaze which they distilled themselves by boiling lead, which has since been banned under the Factory Acts and, therefore, examples of this type of glaze are becoming more and more rare. // I enclose a leaflet and a postcard [now accessioned in Archives as D78/16].’
Lieu de création
Wrecclesham
Date
1930
Nom d'objet
Matériel
Technique
Document électronique
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