RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 1 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 / 10:00 am start
A ‘Goldfields pottery’ stoneware food jar,
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Lot Details
c.1875. A squat cylindrical stoneware food storage jar of buff coloured clay. Concave base; slightly swollen wall with a high shoulder, short neck, everted rim and wide mouth. The interior and exterior excluding the base, lower wall and resting surface dipped in a thick dark brown glaze. Old chip to exterior of basal foot. 18.2 x 20.2 cm. For a discussion of the body type see: Neville A Ritchie, Archaeology and history of the Chinese in southern New Zealand during the nineteenth Century : a study of acculturation, adaptation, and change (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Otago, 1986), pp. 242-243 and Philip P Choy, 'Interpreting ""Overseas Chinese"" ceramics found on historical sites: manufacture, marks, classification, and social use', SHE Research Resource (March 2014), pp. 11-16.
