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White salt-glazed stoneware mug with scratch-blue floral decoration

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An image of Mug. Humphrey Palmer's Factory, possibly, England, Staffordshire. White salt-glazed stoneware mug with scratch-blue floral decoration. Cylindrical with slightly everted rim, and a loop handle with a small kick at the lower end. Decorated on the front with a spray of stylized flowers and foliage in scratch-blue technique. There are two blue spots on opposing sides of the base. Off-white stoneware with incised decoration coloured with blue from cobalt oxide, and salt-glazed, height, whole, 6.8 cm, width, whole, 7.8 cm, diameter, whole, 5.3 cm, circa 1745-1770. Rococo. Production Note: Scratch blue decoration on white salt-glazed stoneware was intended to resemble Chinese blue and white porcelain, but the effect is very crude in comparison. Acquisition Credit: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Mug. Humphrey Palmer's Factory, possibly, England, Staffordshire. White salt-glazed stoneware mug with scratch-blue floral decoration. Cylindrical with slightly everted rim, and a loop handle with a small kick at the lower end. Decorated on the front with a spray of stylized flowers and foliage in scratch-blue technique. There are two blue spots on opposing sides of the base. Off-white stoneware with incised decoration coloured with blue from cobalt oxide, and salt-glazed, height, whole, 6.8 cm, width, whole, 7.8 cm, diameter, whole, 5.3 cm, circa 1745-1770. Rococo. Production Note: Scratch blue decoration on white salt-glazed stoneware was intended to resemble Chinese blue and white porcelain, but the effect is very crude in comparison. Acquisition Credit: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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  • Accession Number: C.101-2015
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 932 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 501.91kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 22/1

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18th Century _WF_Batchelor blue and white cylindrical drinking vessel English Fitz_AA floral flowers Georgian glazed Humphrey Palmer's Factory incised incising mugs pottery Rococo salt-glazed saltglaze scratch blue decoration scratched decoration stoneware vessel white

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