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Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Redware with mould-applied white reliefs under lead-glaze
Red earthenware, thrown, with applied handle and spout, standing on three moulded feet, and decorated with white mould-applied sprigs, and cream slip under slightly yellowish lead-glaze. The globular pot has a short cylindrical neck, and stands on three feet moulded in the form of a lion's mask with a paw below. It has an upward-tilting slightly curved spout and a rounded loop handle with a kick at the bottom. One side is decorated with a long bust of a man in profile to left flanked by cockerels, with below, a flowering plant flanked by a leaf and an acorn spray. On the other side there is a long bust of a woman in profile to left accompanied by similar motifs, except that the last two are transposed. There is a band of slip round the rim and inside the tip of the spout, and a splash on top of the handle. The domed cover has an acorn knob, and a small ventilation hole, and is decorated with three sprigs, a bust of a man, and two leaves. A band of cream slip encircles the edge.
History note: Cecil Baring Collection; Frank Partridge, 26 King Street, St James's, London; Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; Sir Ivor died 2005; on loan since 2006; Lady Batchelor died 2014.
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund
Height: 13 cm
Length: 19.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, second quarter#
George II
Circa
1730
CE
-
1750
CE
Redware - red earthenware with lead-glaze - was developed in north Staffordshire in the 1720s, and marked an important advance in pottery manufacture. Previously lead-glazed earthenware had been fired once, but redware had two firings. The first, known as the biscuit firing, took place after the vessels had been formed and decorated, often with white slip bands, and mould-applied sprigs (reliefs). The second followed the application of lead-glaze, and was known as the gloss or glost firing. Some of the earliest redwares were made in the 1720s at Newcastle-under-Lyme in a pottery operated by Samuel Bell (d. 1744), and excavations have shown that large quantities of tea and coffee ware were made by several potters in the nearby villages of Shelton and Fenton between the 1730s and 1750s.
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream)
Reliefs
composed of
earthenware
( cream)
Body
Feet
red Earthenware
Inscription present: rectangular white stick-on label printed in black with a black circle with reserved white spaces in the outline enclosing the name and number
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label printed in blue
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.8 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 201356
Old object number: 76
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.8-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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