Pottery series

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The pottery series is only listed in the blue book and was obviously displayed in a number of cases in the Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums.

Blue book	Accession Number	Blue book description
Blue 1	1884.35.54	Case 75 1 Glazed Fiji pot (J.N. 2037)
Blue 2 - 4	1884.35.53, 1884.63.65, 1884.140.574	Case 75 2 - 4 Double bowled glazed bottles Fiji Is (1923 1921 1922)
Blue 5 - 6	1884.64.12 & Not matched	Case 75 5 - 6 Double bowled bottles Peruvian (1919 and 1920)
Blue 7 - 8	1884.140.143 & not matched	Case 75 7 - 8 Double and triple bowled bottle Kabyle N Africa 2008
Blue 9	1884.41.7 .1 -.2	Case 75 9 Cooking pot Nupi W Africa black (1967)
Blue 10	1884.40.43	Case 75 10 Bottle Modern Egyptian pottery (2009 and 1925)
Blue 11	1884.40.42	Case 75 11 Bottle Modern Egyptian pottery (2009 and 1925)
Blue 12	1884.40.29	Saucer Modern Egyptian pottery (2009 and 1925) Added Blue book entry - (1951)
Blue 13	1884.40.30	Case 75 13 Saucer black Modern Egyptian (1889)
Blue 14 - 15	1884.56.43, 44	Case 75 14 - 15 Bowls used for drinking holy waters with an Arab inscription Egyptian (1890, 199-) Added Blue book entry - Modern
Blue 16 - 17	1884.70.46, 47	Case 75 16 - 17 Modern Egyptian figures in pottery (1964 and 1963)
Blue 18	1884.40.26 & not matched	Case 75 18 and 19 Modern Egyptian jars with inscriptions in black and white (1937 and 1928)
Blue 20	1884.40.36, 1884.58.8, 1884.140.481	Case 75 20-22 Specimens of modern Indian pottery (1955 2026 2028)
Blue 23 - 38	1884.10.11, 1884.35.55, 1884.40.18-19, 22-23, 27-28, 37-41; 1884.101.84-85 & Not matched	Case 75 23 to 38 Modern Indian pottery 2002 2019 1978 2015 1982 2020 1956 1980 2025 2024 2029 1979 1985 2027 2001 1940
Blue 39	1884.7.28	Case 73 39 Double gourd (2010)
Blue 40	?1884.35.115-117	Case 43 40 Fragment of pottery from Robenhausen (Swiss Lake Dwellings) (1995)
Blue 41	?1884.35.59 .1-? or not matched	41 Two fragments of an urn found in a cairn called Carnedd Howell near Bangor with burnt bones late British in box
Blue 42	1884.35.32	42 Early British urn found with very rude stone implements in a cairn on Moel Faben nr Bangor N Wales
Blue 43	?1884.35.59 .1-? or not matched	Case 77 43 Tray cont'g fragments of British urn found in a tumulus Llandegai near Bangor [added] in 1868 [end insert] (1999)
Blue 44	Not matched	Case 44 Fragments of pottery, Thames Valley 1996 1997 1994
Blue 45	?1884.35.59	Fragments of pottery from a tumulus called Carnedd Howell
Blue 46	?1884.33.47, 1884.41.1 1884.41.40-47	46 Tray contg fragments of Roman and Romano-British pottery found in London
Blue 47	1884.35.61	Tray cont'g fragments of pottery High Down Camp Sussex (see Archaeologia II.42)
Blue 47a	?1884.35.61	Tray cont'g fragments (2) of ornamented pottery Highdown pits, Sussex
Blue 48	?1884.104.75, 1884.140.11-21	Case 82 48 Tray contg fragments of Roman pottery and spindle whorls [nb only one identified] found on the surface of an earthwork on Callow Hill Oxfordshire with two flakes and flint ball April 1868
Blue 49	Not matched	Tray cont'g fragments of pottery from a pit near St Peters Broadstairs. Found with flint flakes and animal remains in 1868 (See Journal of the Archaeological Society 1869)
Blue 50	Not matched	Tray cont'g fragments of Samian pottery with border scrolls, London
Blue 51 - 53	1884.41.63-79, 85, 89, 96, 99-100, 103, 117-119, 161-2, 166-7	51 - 53 Tray contg fragments of Samian pottery with potter's marks London
Blue 54	Not matched	Tray cont'g fragments of Samian pottery with figures in relief, London
Blue 55	1884.35.38	55 Ancient British pot apparently a food vessel found in Thames
Blue 56	1884.35.51	Case 79 56 Ancient urn Denmark (1984)
Blue 57	1884.35.29	Case 79 57 Ancient urn Denmark (2033)
Blue 58	Not matched	Case 79 58 Ancient cup with handle, Denmark (2038)
Blue 59	1884.35.27 .1-2	Case 79 Pot with handle cont'g a human jaw. Said to be from an Indian mound St Clair Illinois US America (2036)
Blue 60	1884.35.28	Case 75 Ancient bottle from a mound St Clair Illinois (1936)
Blue 61	1884.35.25	Case 75 61 Anglo Saxon urn found in a Saxon burial ground Stow Heath nr Bury St Edmunds in 1851 (1992) AdditionalBlue book entry - These patterns often found on Saxon pots [3 Drawings]
Blue 62	1884.35.24	Case 79 62 Anglo Saxon urn found with a fragment(to be repaired) (2034) AdditionalBlue book entry - These patterns often found on Saxon pots [3 Drawings] Added Blue book entry - Stow Heath near B St Edmunds
Blue 63	1884.41.39 .1-12	Case 77 Fragment of Anglo Saxon urn Snape Suffolk (1993) Added Blue book entry - Given by NF Hele Aug 1870 to Col Lane Fox v Hele: Notes or Jotting about Aldeburgh
Blue 64	1884.37.28	Case 79 64 Anglo Saxon bowl Walthamstow Essex (1939) Added Blue book entry - Anglo-Saxon crossed out and Hallstatt inserted
Blue 65	1884.37.109	Case 79 Merovingian urn Abbeville France (1983) Added Blue book entry - Hallstatt period AdditionalBlue book entry - Merovingian Kings reigned from AD 420 to 752
Blue 66	1884.37.110	Case 79 66 Merovingian urn Abbeville France (1938) AdditionalBlue book entry - Merovingian Kings reigned from AD 420 to 752
Blue 67	1884.62.3	Case 75 67 Peruvian vessel representing a human head. Found in an ancient grave at Cuença Ecuador with some bronze implements (1924) Additional Blue book entry - Ecuador one of the states of Columbia S America under the equator hence its name
Blue 68	1884.40.49	Case 75 68 Peruvian vessel representing a frog Found in graves at Tumbez Ecuador (2030) Additional Blue book entry - Tumbez on the border of Peru and Ecuador
Blue 69	1884.67.14	Case 75 69 Peruvian vessel representing a human figure in a sitting posture with hands crossed over the knees Tumbez Ecuador (2031)
Blue 70	1884.128.73	Case 75 70 Small cup alabaster Found in ancient graves Cuença Ecuador (1987)
Blue 71	1884.40.44	Case 75 Mexican cup small (1988)
Blue 72	1884.140.126 .1-2	Case 82 72 Ancient cooking pot with a representation of a female cooking. Handmade Found in Malta (2018) Additional Blue book entry - Forgery [BB]
Blue 73	1884.38.34	Case 86 73 Ancient bowl ornamented with a geometrical pattern Brown pottery Cyprus (1976)
Blue 74	1884.38.35	Case 86 74 Ancient bowl ornamented with a geometrical patern Red and brown pottery Cyprus (1977)
Blue 75	1884.38.2	Case 86 75 Bottle ornamented with geometrical patterns red I of Cyprus (1905)
Blue 76	1884.38.14	Case 86 76 Bottle light coloured I of Cyprus (1906)
Blue 77	1884.38.46	Case 86 77 bottle ornamented with circles red Cyprus (1904)
Blue 78	1884.38.45	Case 86 78 Bottle light yellow ornamented with concentric circles Cyprus (1911)
Blue 79	1884.38.5	Case 86 79 Bottle light coloured Cyprus (1907)
Blue 80	1884.38.77	Case 86 80 Vase ornamented with flower patterns Cyprus (1941)
Blue 81	1884.38.72	Case 86 81 Jug ornamented with figures of birds and arrow with fylfots (2005)
Blue 82	1884.37.48	Case 82 82 Archaic Greek vase ornamented with figures of animals and(2021) Added Blue book entry - [2 Drawings of swastikas] Fijlfot or filfot. Ornamentation like the Hindu Arani of remote antiquity ie the instrument of wood by which fire was obtained by friction which was the symbol of Agni. This symbol has never been lost and occurs 60 times on an ancient funeral Celtic urn also on monumental brasses and church embroidery of the middle ages
Blue 83	1884.38.78	Case 86 83 Early Greek jug ornamented with bands of black (2006)
Blue 84	1884.41.11	Case 86 84 Bottle with handle ornamented with red bands potters mark Found in Bengazi on the coast of Tripoli (2003) Added Blue book entry - Bengazi a maritime town of Tripoli. The Berenice of the Ptolomies. The remains of some enclosed gardens still shewn - thought by some to be the site of the gardens of the Hesperides
Blue 85	1884.37.46 .1-2	Case 82 85 Greek vase with cover Corinth (2022)
Blue 86 - 105	1884.37.43-45, 51-52, 78-82, 87-88, 1884.38.37-38, 1884.41.51	Case 82 (86-105) Ancient Greek vessels 2022 1893 & 1894 1903, 1931, 1932, 1945, 1950, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1990, 2023, 2032 Added: with exceptions No 93 & 99 in case 88 and no 101 in case 86
Blue 106 - 114	1884.37.76-77, 84-86, 91-94 1884.41.52 .1-2	Case 82 (106-114) Nine vessels from Bengazi on the coast of Tripoli
Blue 115-117	1884.37.111-113	115 - 117 Three bottles Malta (1892 1968 1969)
Blue 118	1884.116.47	Case 88 118 Cup Malta (1966)
Blue 119	1884.116.118	Case 88 119 Portion of a lamp (1965) Malta
Blue 120	1884.37.47	Case 82 120 Small vase from the Greek Is (1962)
Blue 121 - 122	1884.40.2-3	Case 75 121 and 122 Bottles long one black earthenware one a gourd of the same form (2040 and 2041)
Blue 123	1884.37.53	123 Basin and dish Greek (Basin in many fragments to be repaired)
Blue 124	Not matched	Case 88 124 Roman Lamp (1947)
Blue 125	1884.37.31	Case 79 125 Roman jug (Uriconium (1918) Added Blue book entry - Uriconium situated about where Utoxeter (Salop) now stands on banks of Severn
Blue 126	1884.37.32	Case 79 126 Roman jug ornamented with vandyke pattern in incised lines (Uriconium) (1900) Added Blue book entry - Uriconium situated about where Utoxeter (Salop) now stands on banks of Severn
Blue 127	1884.37.107	Case 82 127 Roman black jar Cologne 1867 (1927)
Blue 128	1884.37.4	Case 82 128 Roman red saucer Samian Cologne 1867 (1942) AdditionalBlue book entry - Samian from I of Samos Aegean Sea on the coast of Anatolia. For a time the head quarters of Cleopatra and Antony Samian earth used in medicine as an astringent in days gone by and also by goldsmiths for brightening and polishing gold
Blue 129	1884.37.24	Case 82 129 Roman saucer Samian Cologne 1867 Potters marks (1942) AdditionalBlue book entry - Samian from I of Samos Aegean Sea on the coast of Anatolia. For a time the head quarters of Cleopatra and Antony Samian earth used in medicine as an astringent in days gone by and also by goldsmiths for brightening and polishing gold
Blue 130	1884.37.99	Case 82 Roman black jar with 'Vivas' on it in white letters Cologne 1867 (1930)
Blue 131	1884.37.100	Case 82 Roman red jar with 'Felix' in white letters Cologne 1867 (1926)
Blue 132	1884.57.14	Egyptian canoptic jar with cover in form of a human head (2719)
Blue 133 - 134	1884.42.12-13	Case 82 133 and 134 Glass vases Roman Much broken (1974 and 5)
Blue 135	1884.42.8	Case 82 135 Roman fluted drinking glass Cyprus (1961)
Blue 136, a, b	1884.42.4-6	Case 82 136 and a and b Glass lachrymatories (1958 1960 1959) Added Blue book entry - The tears of a deceased person's friends preserved with the ashes and ... [sic illegible]
Blue 137 - 138	1884.119.582 & not matched	Case 73 137 - 8 Greek bronze vessels (3049 and 3048)
Blue 139	1884.119.583	139 Thin bronze vessel Ireland Added Blue book entry - ?3073 H.G.
Blue 140	1884.119.245	Case 73 140 Large thin bronze vessel Ireland (3065)
Blue 141	Not matched	R[eturned] Aug. '83 Bronze basin shaped vessel, Ireland (3050) (withdrawn Aug.'83)
Blue 142	Not matched	Bronze vessel Ireland (3075)
Blue 143	Not matched	R[eturned] Aug. '83 Ancient bronze pot found in Ireland (3076) (withdrawn Aug.'83)
Blue 144	Not matched	Ancient bronze vessel large Ireland (3045)
Blue 145	1884.119.584	Ancient bronze pot England
Blue 146	Not matched	R[eturned] Aug. '83 146 Early English bronze pot with letters I H upon it (3077) (withdrawn Aug.'83)
Blue 147	Not matched	R[eturned] Aug. '83 147 Iron pot in present use in Ireland being a survival of the antique form (3054)(withdrawn Aug.'83)
Blue 148	Not matched	R[eturned] Aug. '83 148 Small ancient bronze pot on three legs with animal's head on handle & ornamented withbronze knobs (3046) (withdrawn Aug.'83)
Blue 149	1884.58.81	Case 73 149 Copper vessel used in religious ceremonies India (3047)
Blue 150	Not matched	Brass basin from Bida capital of Nupé W Africa (3064)
Blue 150a	1884.70.54	Case 73 150a Ewer from Bida capital of Nupé W Africa (3097)

AP, April 2011

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