Violet Reign Vintage is pleased to offer this vintage Buchan Portobello stoneware Scotch bottle from their series of similar decanters made in the 1960s.
Attractive shape and colour palette, perfect on its own or to complete your set.
Measures 32cm tall.
About Buchan Pottery:
Alexander Willison Buchan (Always known as A. W. Buchan) was born in 1833 to a Midlothian farmer, William. The Post Office Directories list “Murray & Buchan” from 1869, as stoneware manufacturers in Portobello. The works continued through family lines and suffered the same issues as many other potteries during the war periods; with workforce shortages and the replacement of stoneware jars with glass – but they persisted with help to a Government contract to produce stoneware rum bottles. J. Gordon Buchan died in 1967 and the works passed to Douglas Buchan, who realised that the works were unlikely to be viable in Edinburgh, but could qualify for government financial assistance if he were to move the works to another location. Crieff was chosen for the new works, and the last pieces were thrown in Portobello during late 1972, and they continued production in Crieff until 2000.
