Salt glaze JUG signed R with some writing

There was one listed as 'Antique ink bottle N.Antoine & Fils Stoneware'
Description = ENCR JAPONAISE and N. ANTOINE & FILS

We used to buy ink in stoneware bottles in the UK in this way at the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century. They are not uncommon and worth very little.

A French version is certainly not as common here but I imagine in France they are.

thanks guys for the information always helpful... did not know it was an ink bottle until you guy's spoke it... just wondered if is thrown or molded bottle?... looks finely made to be thrown but i would be wrong

It was probably thrown as back then there were many jobbing potters who were paid "piece work rates" to thrown pots travelling from pottery to pottery. By that I mean paid a very small amount of money for each pot thrown. I think that I remember reading that some of them threw 1000 to 1500 pots a day.

wow 1000 to 1500 pots a day... then i think they most have been very good at potting... thanks john for the information...

Having said that French stoneware ink bottles were not as common in the UK, I have just been down my garden and by the shed I found this: -

lol, then am guessing you most have had this ink pot before in your shed and never realize it, until today

That's about it - I was looking for something else which I didn't find.