VICTORIAN CREMOR CARMINE JAR from Burnley

from Burnley

The first egg cup is made of one piece with a neck that flutes outward at the base with vertical ridges decorated in the cup’s interior

resistance to water seepage and because it was considered easy to work with

had been produced as a dye for over 600 years from the female cochineal insect

VICTORIAN CREMOR CARMINE JAR from BurnleyThis antique apothecary jar is one of three, from Burnley, Lancashire. It is has a delicate crazing pattern throughout; not to be confused with cracks, this is a phenomenon that occurs in some ceramics where an intricate spider web like design appears overtime in the glaze of a piece of pottery. This jar still boasts its original chemist label with the phone number 285, indicating that it is from or before 1905 as 4 digit phone numbers were introduced