English Delftware pickle dishes painted in blue with landscapes

An image of English Delftware. Leaf dish. Pickle dish. Unidentified Liverpool pottery, England. Both dishes are moulded in the shape of a leaf with wavy edges and a short stalk, standing on a shaped footring. The interiors are painted with a lakeside scene in which there is a man in a boat in the foreground, an area with tufts of grass or reeds, three houses flanked by bushes and a single house with a fence to the right of it. Behind each house there is a slender tree resembling a telegraph pole, and overhead are three groups of schematic birds. The edge has a border of slanting lines broken by six groups of four spirals. Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed pale bluish-white and painted in blue. Height, A, 2.2 cm, length, A, 13.2 cm, width, A, 9.2 cm; height, B, 2.2 cm, length, B, 13.1 cm, width, B, 9.3 cm, circa 1760. Rococo. Production Note: Small dishes of this shape were probably used for pickles presented on the table between the larger dishes in the course, or possible for sweetmeats for the dessert. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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English Delftware. Leaf dish. Pickle dish. Unidentified Liverpool pottery, England. Both dishes are moulded in the shape of a leaf with wavy edges and a short stalk, standing on a shaped footring. The interiors are painted with a lakeside scene in which there is a man in a boat in the foreground, an area with tufts of grass or reeds, three houses flanked by bushes and a single house with a fence to the right of it. Behind each house there is a slender tree resembling a telegraph pole, and overhead are three groups of schematic birds. The edge has a border of slanting lines broken by six groups of four spirals. Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed pale bluish-white and painted in blue. Height, A, 2.2 cm, length, A, 13.2 cm, width, A, 9.2 cm; height, B, 2.2 cm, length, B, 13.1 cm, width, B, 9.3 cm, circa 1760. Rococo. Production Note: Small dishes of this shape were probably used for pickles presented on the table between the larger dishes in the course, or possible for sweetmeats for the dessert. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.77A & B-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 575 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 99.67kB
Exposure time: 1/45
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor blue and white building buildings Delftware dish Early Rococo earthenware English English Delftware Fitz_AA Georgian glazed lakes lakeside leaf dishes Liverpool Pottery moulded pair pickle dishes pottery press moulded Rococo tin-glazed

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