Pot-pourri Jar | York Museums Trust

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Collection: Decorative Arts
Object name: Pot-pourri jar
Object category: Ceramic
Object subcategory: Factory ceramic
Creators: Leeds Pottery Company (Pottery); Warburton and Britton (Pottery); ()
Description: One of a pair of pot-pourri jars with inner and outer covers. The jar is globular with two moulded handles high on the body. Decorated with a deep blue ground with patterns of swirling lines, dots and grapes in gilt. A panel on the front is decorated over the glaze with a still life of flowers, a panel on the rear is painted with a group of fruit. The circular outer cover has a central moulded knop shaped like a flower, decorated with gilt; the upper surface has a pierced pattern of dots and flowers and the blue ground of the top is decorated with a pattern of dots in gilt. The flat, circular inner cover has a central moulded knop decorated with gilt; the upper surface is a deep blue decorated with a swirling pattern in gilt.
Production date start: 1853
Production date end: 1861
Period: Victorian

Materials: Earthenware (Whole)
Dimensions: Jar height 195.0 mm; Jar diameter 200.0 mm; Outer cover height 195.0 mm; Outer cover diameter 55.0 mm; Inner cover diameter 110.0 mm

Creators: Leeds Pottery Company (Pottery); Warburton and Britton (Pottery); ()
Location: Hunslet; Hunslet
School/style: Pearlware