Featured Unmarked Salt Glazed Large Lidded Pot

Would anyone know anything about this pot? I can't seem to find any similar ones online apart from some that were produced in Australia called Bendigo.

Measures 10" height (with lid) and 29" circumference (widest point).

Not sure of it's worth (if it has any) or where it was made etc. Any help/knowledge greatly appreciated.

Thank you

 

I've always called this sort of shape with lid as a "bean pot." Whether actually used for cooking beans it's hard to say, but certainly for food.

Here in the US this brown glaze is often called "standard glaze" and is not "salt glazed" that I know of.

 

In Australia we call them "bread crocks".
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Bendigo...021982?hash=item41fed193de:g:XH0AAOSwBBRcrt5N
Think they are used for food storage although why you would stuff bread in them I don't know.

 

Wonder if this is something Crocker Farm would look at.

https://www.crockerfarm.com/

 

"primitive" biscuit jar?

 

I agree with Bakers - bean pot

 

My initial thought.....lift the lid and looking for a pot full of baked beans!!!! NICE!!

 

Not the same, but close: https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2458/lots/105

 

In France, it would be a marmite.

A bread crock is a different thing, it's an earthenware vessel with a lid which you store bread in.

 

I will be sure to take one on my next safari if I run out of zip-lock bags.

 

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Thank you ! I've delved a bit further and am coming up with all sort of descriptions that I am having to check the dictionary for! Ferruginous glaze....try saying that with a mouthful. I think you are right about the bean pot - thanks for coming back to me

 

Yep, I originally thought Bendigo but it's not stamped - thanks for coming back to me

 

Brilliant - thank you !

 

Yes, getting closer - thank you for your response - really helpful

 

Jmho. Newer make, marks of lathe hint towards massproduced halfware made afte 1920s, so not antique . The color hints towards germany and is called cologne brown. I rather think for gurken or cornichon, nobody eats beans except people who like the runners.

 

I!ve never seen a marmite in this form and material in France. most are cast iron.

 

I'm very late to this discussion, but I have an almost identical one in daily use in my kitchen. It's a bread crock. Mine originally belonged to my Welsh great-grandmother (1859-1949) and then to my grandmother (1894-1990). They kept bread in it on a marble slab in the pantry.

 

How about a picture?

 

I tried but was completely unsuccessful in uploading them, I'm afraid, despite many attempts and despite reducing the file size.

 

Aha! By the magic of double clicking. Here's the outside. I have photos of the inside as well and can post if they'd be useful. The inside of the body of the crock is glazed, the inside of the lid is unglazed. So pretty much identical to the photos posted by OP.