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Cream Jar
Cream Jar
Cream Jar

Cream Jar

Date1850 - 1899
Object NameJar
Mediumstoneware
ClassificationsCeramics
DimensionsOverall: Height: 11 cm, Diameter: 8 cm
AcquisitionPresented in 1978 by Miss E Cadenhead.
LocationOn Display - Gallery 06
Object numberABDMS002914
Keywords
About MeIn the 19th and early 20th century cream would have been delivered in jars like this one. The stoneware acts an insulator keeping the contents cool. Sometimes the dairy's name and logo would be transfer printed on the side of the jar.


More About Me
Stoneware jars, which keep their contents cool, were used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for the home delivery of cream.
Exhibitions
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