Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1981.057.014ab |
Object Name |
Pot, Chamber |
Title |
CLEMENTSON BROS. Ironstone Chamber Pot, c. 1870 |
Lexicon category |
3: Personal Artifacts |
Date |
c. 1870 |
Year Range from |
1870 |
Year Range to |
1910 |
Made |
Clementson Brothers |
Place of Origin |
Hanley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom |
Description |
White ironstone chamber pot (a) and its lid (b). White glazed ceramic chamber pot (a). Base has "Clementson Brothers Royal Patent Stoneware Hanley" stamped on it with a transfer-printed mark. Embossed body with acanthus leaves, ovals, curlicues and a loop handle and flared rim. Lid (b) has a soft scalloped rim, embossed acanthus leaves and curlicues around rim and curling loop handle center top. |
Makers mark |
Transfer-printed mark |
Provenance |
Made by the Clementson Brothers pottery in England. It would have been made after 1870, and prior to 1910. Unknown. Last owned by Adelaide Richter (neé McMurtrie) Owen Sound, Grey County. She had a family connection to the Wm. Kennedy family (that were involved with a foundry at Owen Sound) and the T. B. Dowsley family (that had a carriageworks, and later a hardware store at Owen Sound). Her parents were Mr. Ewen C. McMurtrie and his wife Marjorie (neé Kennedy), a daughter of Matthew Kennedy Sr. of Owen Sound. Matthew was a son of Wm. Kennedy Sr. |
Collection |
Toiletry & Cosmetic Collection |
Material |
Glazed Ceramic (Ironstone China)/Transfer print |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Kennedy, Matthew |
Function |
A small receptacle (usually stored under one's bed or inside a commode or behind a washstand cupboard door). It is used by persons to urinate or defecate in to, especially at night-time when it would be inconvenient to go all the way outside to a privy. The chamber would carried out and dumped into the privy later on, and then they were usually rinsed or scoured before they returned to the bedroom area. |