This earthenware vase was made around 1906 by Pilkington’s Tile & Pottery Co, Lancashire. This particular pot has a form of decoration known as ‘fiery crystalline’ or ‘sunstone’ because of the sparkling golden colour produced by a scattering of metallic crystals in the glaze. When illuminated the crystals look like a mineral known as sunstone – a variety of aventurine. This type of glaze was also produced in other colours.