Staffordshire stand for an oval basket with pierced trellis work

An image of Basket Stand. Stand for an oval basket. Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery. The oval stand has a rim wth eight lobes formed by scrolls enclosing panels of pierced trellis work, with smaller areas of basket-work between them. It has shallow sloping sides and a flat centre. The rim is coloured in rough stripes of yellow, green, manganese-purple and grey oxide colours, and the flat centre is dappled in the same colours before glazing. The reverse has been sponged or spattered with manganese-oxide before glazing. Dark creamware, moulded, pierced, and decorated with metallic oxides under lead-glaze. circa 1750-1770. Rococo. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Basket Stand. Stand for an oval basket. Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery. The oval stand has a rim wth eight lobes formed by scrolls enclosing panels of pierced trellis work, with smaller areas of basket-work between them. It has shallow sloping sides and a flat centre. The rim is coloured in rough stripes of yellow, green, manganese-purple and grey oxide colours, and the flat centre is dappled in the same colours before glazing. The reverse has been sponged or spattered with manganese-oxide before glazing. Dark creamware, moulded, pierced, and decorated with metallic oxides under lead-glaze. circa 1750-1770. Rococo. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.27-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 951 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 180.54kB
Exposure time: 1/250
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor basket stand basket-work baskets basketwork brown creamware Early Rococo earthenware English Fitz_AA Georgian glazed green lead-glazed lobed lobes oval pierced pottery Rococo serving piece sponged sponging Staffordshire Pottery stand tableware trellis

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