Blue Prattware Meat Paste Jar ‘Boar Hunt’

Victorian

Circa 1869 | England

An antique Victorian blue Prattware meat paste jar with a decorative transfer print of a boar hunt. This lovely earthenware jar is as attractive today as it would have been to customers in Victorian times (see The Gen).

DIMENSIONS: Height 10.3 cm, Width 8 cm.

SIGNATURES, MARKINGS & INSCRIPTIONS: Unmarked.

CONDITION: In very good condition, with wear commensurate with antique age and use of such a piece. There is a tiny nick to the inner rim with a fine inner lip hairline down from it; this is not visible externally. Glazed over flake under the heel from making; a small associated flake to the base edge. Some discoloured crazing throughout.

REFERENCES: For examples of similar Prattware jars, see The Crown Series Collector’s Companion, Ken Arnold, Crown Castleton Publishers, 1995, p. 72.

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THE GEN

“Such colourful designs, often on covers of meat (or fish) paste pots, are generally called ‘Prattware’, but several other firms specialised in this technique and in producing, for the meat paste manufacturers, low cost pottery pots, the first essay in colourful ceramic packaging! The customer chose the product by its package for its decorative merits. These are, of course, still widely collected …”. (The Concise Guide to British Pottery and Porcelain, Geoffrey A. Godden, Barrie & Jenkins London, 1973, p. 15)

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