Stoneware bottle

Agency/Maker
Convict (Unknown)
Production date
1790-1820
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Object Detail

Brief description
Early Colonial bottle made by the Leak Pottery at Brickfields Hill, Sydney, possibly by Jonathon Leak. This business was started by Jonathon Leak, one of the best known early potters of the Colony who came out as a convict.

This artefact was discovered in an archaeological investigation in 1989 encompassing the foreshores of the Parramatta River from Arthur Street to Charles Street Wharf, from the Gasworks Bridge to Morton Street, land on George Street between Harris and Purchase Streets. The site has a varied history with the wharf landing in existence from 1788, and barracks, stores, granaries, a mens’ asylum, a mill and cloth factory all being in evidence at times between 1788 and the 1930s.
Media/Materials
Stoneware clay
Production place
Sydney/New South Wales/Australia
Credit line
Parramatta City Council Cultural Collection - Archaeology
Subject category
Early Colonial
Department
Archaeology
Cultural Collections
Accession date
21 Jun 2012
Object number
QWE.1992.00001

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