Potter: Batterham, Richard
Stoneware, thrown, and ash-glazed
Thrown greyish-buff stoneware, with applied pulled handle, coated inside and outside with grey-green, streaky ash-glaze with brown flecks which stops about 1 cm above the bottom. The unglazed base has five paler 'patch marks'. The lower part of the jug is roughly barrel-shaped. Above the lower end of the handle the sides slope gently inwards towards the top where there is a projecting ridge below the rim, and a small lip. A projecting ring encircles the body above the junction of the lower end of the handle with the body, and there are three indented horizontal rings on the neck. The back of the handle has vertical grooves on either side of the centre.
History note: Bought by the vendor in the 1980s or 1990s
Purchased with the Applied Arts Fund
Height: 28 cm
Width: 19 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (2013-10-14) by Harding, Barbara
20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth I
Circa
1980
CE
-
Circa
1995
CE
Richard Batterham (1936-2021) became interested in potting while he was at Bryanston School. After national service he worked for two years at St Ives with Bernard Leach, and in 1959 set up his own pottery at Durweston, near Blandford in Dorset. In 1967 he moved into a new pottery there where he has continued to work. Throughout his career Richard Batterham has concentrated on domestic stoneware, finely thrown and simply decorated before glazing. This is a handsome example of his characteristic jug form which he makes in various sizes. The museum also owns one of his teapots (C.1 & A-2009) and two lidded storage jars (C.79 & A-1980 and C.80 & A-1980).
Visible Surfaces
composed of
ash-glaze
( grey-green)
Base
Diameter 14.5 cm
Body
Handle
greyish-buff Stoneware
Inscription present: long narrow rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.28-2013
Primary reference Number: 197481
Entry form number: 1081
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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