Featured Porcelain chamber pot logo... please help!

Hi all,

I could really use some help, my grandfather is trying to find a matching lid for my grandmother’s antique chamber pot. Apologies as I know nothing about this subject. Attached is a pic of the logo on the bottom of the pot which we can’t make out all the lettering. Anyone familiar with the logo or could point me in the right direction? Thank you!

 

Hello and welcome to the board.
If you go back use Edit then Full Image, people on phones will be able to see the picture.

Also, any chance you could show a picture of the pot.

 

Hello, Greg. Before we go off looking for a lid, is your grandfather certain it ever had one? Not sure they were standard issue.

 

Hi Bronwen, yes apparently there was a lid that broke at some point. Thanks!

 

perhaps you might want to check this?
https://www.kovels.com/marks/pottery-porcelain-marks/birds/Page-2.html?start=25

 

@janetpjohn @say_it_slowly
Might be German
Do you have Rontgen's?

 

looks like a Napoleonic eagle

 

Two-handled chamber pots seem to be much more the exception than the rule.

 

Better chance of finding a handle in the dark.
The Frisians in the north of the Netherlands didn't want to take any chances with their chamber pots:

 

Have to say finding a lid is not going to be easy.
Most chamber pots you find today are missing lids.
The few lids that I have come across in the last few years are always white. (Which is what you may have to settle for.)
Even if you find one, it may not fit.

 

Often the two handled tall ones are called slop pots or slop jars, something like that. I checked Kovel's for the mark without success but I do have a seldom used Rontgen's so I'll have a look.

I have been trying to see if I can pull any more detail from the mark but not great luck. It looks something like CAP_ELI_C CHINA to me so far.

 

just a question in-between. why do people name a normal soup terrine chamber pot ?

 

I actually found the mark in Lerner's. It's the Carrollton Pottery Company of Carrollton, Ohio in business from 1903 to the late 1930's.

It occurs to me that a lid might not be marked so may be hard to find one by name.

I think a slop pot was often used for used water from a wash bowl and the like. Not sure if they were usually used for chamber pot contents. But then again, in one's own home who can say. Not something I'm well versed in either.

 

I don't know Fid, maybe because they are similar size sometimes? It seems to me that the opposite is often the case. People seem to call chamber pots soup terrines/tureens around here rather a lot

 

"people are strange when you're a stranger"...

 

Earwig!

 

Oh I've been wracking my brain to figure out what that means.

(I just keep singing "faces look ugly when you're alone". Jim Morrison and the Doors we're an early favorite of mine )

 

Means I can't get that tune out of my ear now!