This is a collectable antique stoneware butter crock or pot. It is an antique piece of Scottish Pottery and was made by Port Dundas Pottery in Glasgow.
It has a lovely rustic design on the front showing a a group of little people dancing around a Maypole. This is the trademark of the Maypole Dairy. The Dairy had numerous branches throughout the UK and was started by the Watson Brothers on Queen Street, Wolverhampton, in the year 1887.
This pot would have stored butter in an old-fashioned grocers or in a dairy / farmhouse. It has no inner rim and was never intended to have a lid - so this is absent. The butter would have been covered in the shop with a sheet of waxed paper. It has a large applied carrying handle. It would have held about 3 lbs of butter, as annotated under the handle.
I also have another handled pot on my website - that one is a slightly rarer one for the Danish Dairy.
This one also has the impressed mark for Port Dundas Pottery, as photographed. It dates to the late 19th century.
The main body of the crock is in excellent damage free condition.
It is certainly a lovely and collectable piece of Scottish rustic pottery and it would now look so good in a country cottage, barn conversion or farm shop.
The height of the crock is just over 5 1/2 inches - the diameter at the widest point is 6 1/2 inches.
My asking price is a fair one given its excellent antique condition and being a most collectable piece of antique Scottish slatglaze stoneware. These as antique antique advertising items are much sought after.
This large crock will have to be sent to you with Parcelforce24 Recorded Delivery. This will be very carefully packed up to keep safe in transit. This will be capped at £10 and applied to your order at the checkout.