Object number
60/112
Exhibition
Creator
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.
Physical description
1 drinking trough, pottery
Archival history
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].’
Production place
Wrecclesham
Production date
1930
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Material
Technique
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_3812.tif - High resolution image
