2003/15/90

Royal Doulton (Manufacturer)

This stoneware pot is a cream pot. It is narrow at the base, then widens and then narrows again to the neck. It is cream coloured, with an inscription in blue reading 'The Ariston Yaghourt Co. Ltd. 19 Streatham Hill, London S.W.2.' It was made by Royal Doulton c. 1920 at their factory in Lambeth. 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.

stoneware pot. from base on narrow, then widening, then narrowing again to the neck. cream coloured. black inscription: "The Aristen Yaghourt Co. Ltd. 19 Streatham Hill, London S.W. 2". "£10" written on white sticker on base. good condition. 7 x 8 cm (height).

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 // 90. Stoneware pot. From base on narrow, then widening, then narrowing to the neck. Creamy. Blue inscription: 'The Ariston Yaghourt Co. Ltd. 19 Streatham Hill, London S.W.2.'... Good condition. 7.8cm (height).', Letter, Hilary Wojciechowska (Royal Doulton) to Mr Nevill, 23 Marhc 1982 - 'Thank you very much for your letter of 3rd March enquiring about your Doulton pot. // This piece was made of salt-glazed stoneware at our factory in Lambeth, London, which closed down in 1956. It is one of an enormous number of items made by Doulton to the special order of other firms, usually for use as containers. Unfortunately the company did not keep a list of such wares, or a record of the orders or companies involved. We assume that the production runs were quite large, in order to make the venture viable. // Your particular piece probably dates from around 1920. // Yogurt is a Turkish word, and has several alternative spellings: Yaourt, Yoghurt, Yoghourt, and the Ariston version, Yaghourt.'

Lambeth

1920 - 1920

Ceramic, stoneware, Glaze

Fired, Glazed

Ariston Yaghourt Co. Ltd (Corporate Body)