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  • Object number
    74/155/1-2
  • Creator
    Price & Co. (Manufacturer)
  • Description
    Stoneware jar and lid made by Price of Bristol, likely for storing food. Found in a house in Swanage, Dorset.
    This is a stoneware jar and lid made by Price of Bristol, likely to have been used for storing food. Found by donor at his father's house in Swanage, Dorset on his death in 1960. The jar was accepted on the understanding that MERL be permitted to dispose of the jar to another museum at any time it should wish.
  • Physical description
    1 jar and lid: stoneware; good condition - chipped lidThe number '7' within the pottery's stamp identifies the potter who made the jar.
  • Archival history
    MERL Catalogue Form (temporary) – ‘Jar and lid // stoneware // Bristol, found: Swanage, Dorset // Mr W. K. Curtis, Newbury’
  • Production place
    Bristol
  • Object name
    Jar
  • Material
    Ceramic, stoneware, Glaze
  • Technique
    Fired, Glazed
  • Associated subject
    DOMESTIC AND FAMILY LIFE
    PROCESSING : storage and refrigeration
  • External document
    • L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_11982.tif - High resolution image
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