Tobacco jar, Chailey, 1841
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1841
Tobacco jar, Chailey, 1841 is an object recorded by Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 1841. The museum's brief description reads: Tobacco jar, lead-glazed earthenware with inlaid decoration.
English, probably made in Chailey, Sussex, dated 1841. Museum description: Tobacco jar of red earthenware with decoration and inscription impressed and filled with white clay under a brownish yellow glaze. Iron lid. Cylindrical. The moulded top has a rebate for the low cylindrcal, flat-topped lid. Inscribed in capital letters "James Offen Great Chart Kent 1841" above two rows of a repeated starry device impressed with a crosss-cut stick and filled with white clay.
The museum record gives material recorded as earthenware, lead glaze; measurements Height 14.0 cm; Diameter 10.5 cm; place associated: Chailey. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
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Historical context
Great Chart is near Bethersden in Kent.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- earthenware, lead glaze
- Dimensions
- Height 14.0 cm; Diameter 10.5 cm
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Lead-glazed earthenware with inlaid decoration
- Place recorded
- Chailey
Design
- Inscriptions recorded
- 'JAMES OFFEN GREAT CHART KENT 1841'
Identification
- Museum object name
- Tobacco jar
- Museum object number
- C.321&A-1931
- Museum system number
- O149846
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm materials, dimensions, maker and wider type against the holding institution and a specialist reference.