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Satsuma lidded jar, 19th century Japan Earthenware pottery Donated by James Robb, 1943 Museum number 1943-504-22 This type of ware is called brocaded satsuma and is characterised by its cream coloured earthenware with craquelure glaze, thr ...

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Marmalade jar Museum number T3374 Keiller's jars were made by Maling, a Newcastle company that discovered a way to make packaging containers by machine, rather than by hand and turned them out on a huge scale. Maling's records show Keiller's order ...

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Marmalade jar, 1890- 1940 Donated by Mrs S. Sykes Museum number 1973-1128-1 At one time jams, preserved fruits and sweetmeats were luxuries which had to be imported and could only be obtained by the wealthy. During the 1700s, sugar became more a ...

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Gerard Lyons Born Glasgow 1938 Large Vessel, 1969 White stoneware Purchased from the artist, 1969 Museum number 1969-281-1 This work is unusually large for a pot thrown on a wheel. Lyons has shown great skill in being able to control s ...

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Alan Caiger- Smith Born Argentina, 1930 Amber Red Lustre Jar, 1989 Red earthenware with tin oxide glaze Purchased with support from the National Fund for Acquisitions, 1989 Museum number 1990-135 Alan Caiger-Smith was a leading British ...

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Cosmetic jar, Middle Kingdom Abydos, excavated by Edouard Naville in 1908-9 Calcite or alabaster Donated by the Egypt Exploration Fund Museum number 1975-140 The usual funerary items for women included a wooden head-rest, a copper mirror, ...

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Marmalade pot Donated by Miss Stewart Museum number 1978-1886 Keiller's was founded in 1797 by Mrs Janet Keiller and her son, James, as general confectioners. It eventually became one of the most important commercial companies to emerge from Du ...

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Canopic Jar with lid, Middle Kingdom Geographical origin unknown Limestone Donor unrecorded Museum number 1976-680 The Egyptians preserved the internal organs of the human body. The liver, lungs, stomach and intestines, removed during the ...

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Storage jar Museum number 1978-665-1 Increasing demand led to the founding of tea and coffee merchants in the 1860s. Individual portions were weighed into paper bags and then sold. Braithwaite's in Castle Street is still a traditional tea and co ...

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Storage jar Museum number 1978-665-2 Increasing demand led to the founding of tea and coffee merchants in the 1860s. Individual portions were weighed into paper bags and then sold. Braithwaite's in Castle Street is still a traditional tea and co ...

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