English Delftware sweetmeat dish, Lambeth Pottery

An image of Pickle tray. Sweetmeat dish. Lambeth High Street Pottery, England. Lambeth Griffith, William, proprietor. With six compartments, painted in blue with floral sprays. The glaze on reverse has not adhered to the whole, leaving unglazed areas here and there, The dish is made in six segments with hollows between them on the underside, and stands on five shallow bun feet. The upper side has a central five-sided compartment surrounded by five compartments with three slightly curved internal sides and a two scallops on the outer edge (ten in all). Each compartment is decorated with a different stylized floral spray and the outer edge and raised edges between the compartments have borders of wavy sprays of leaves and stylized flowers. Buff earthenware, press-moulded, with applied feet, tin-glazed pale greyish-white, and painted in blue. Height, whole, 3.4 cm, diameter, whole, 22.3 cm, circa 1750-1760. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Pickle tray. Sweetmeat dish. Lambeth High Street Pottery, England. Lambeth Griffith, William, proprietor. With six compartments, painted in blue with floral sprays. The glaze on reverse has not adhered to the whole, leaving unglazed areas here and there, The dish is made in six segments with hollows between them on the underside, and stands on five shallow bun feet. The upper side has a central five-sided compartment surrounded by five compartments with three slightly curved internal sides and a two scallops on the outer edge (ten in all). Each compartment is decorated with a different stylized floral spray and the outer edge and raised edges between the compartments have borders of wavy sprays of leaves and stylized flowers. Buff earthenware, press-moulded, with applied feet, tin-glazed pale greyish-white, and painted in blue. Height, whole, 3.4 cm, diameter, whole, 22.3 cm, circa 1750-1760. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.53-2015
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Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
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Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1

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18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor blue and white circular compartments Delftware dish drawers earthenware English English Delftware Fitz_AA floral flowers Georgian glazed Lambeth High Street Pottery Lambeth Pottery moulded pickle tray pottery press moulded service ware serving piece spray sprays sweetmeat dish tableware tin-glazed tray

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