Jug: C.10-2015

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery

Entities

Description

Redware with applied white reliefs

Red earthenware, thrown, with applied lip and handle, decorated with mould-applied sprigs coloured with cobalt oxide and white slip under lead-glaze. The pear-shaped jug stands on a low foot. It has a sparrow-beak lip and a loop handle of D section with a leaf-shaped kick at the lower end. On the front there are four plant sprigs, touched with blue. Both sides of the rim are encircled by a slip band, and there is a splash of slip on the top of the handle.

Notes

History note: Charles J. Lomax Collection. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January)

Legal notes

Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through the Art Fund

Measurements and weight

Height: 9.8 cm
Width: 9.1 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady

Dating

18th Century, second quarter#
George II
Circa 1730 - 1745

Components of the work

Decoration composed of cobalt oxide
Body
Reliefs

Materials used in production

Lead-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Lead-glazing

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: circular off-white paper stick-on-label, printed in green to resemble a Staffordshire slipware dish with a bust of King Charles in the Boscobel oak tree and criss-cross border interrupted at the bottom with the collectors name . Across the tree is a panel held by a lion and unicorn with the number hand-written on it