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Octagonal plate: C.12-2015

Current Location: In storage

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Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery

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Description

Earthenware decorated with oxide colours under lead-glaze

Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with greenish-blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple and grey oxide colours under lead-glaze. Octagonal with a sloping rim, shallow sides and flat centre. The rim is decorated with a moulded trellis diaper border broken at the eight angles by a panel flanked by foliage in relief. The well is mainly dappled in grey with five small areas dabbed with all the colours The diaper pattern on the rim is grey and the panels and foliage have touches of all the colours. The reverse is mottle overall in grey.

Notes

History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; on loan since 2006

Legal notes

Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 24.2 cm
Height: 2.1 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
George II
George III
Circa 1750 CE - 1770 CE

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

Decoration composed of oxide colours ( greenish-blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple and grey)

Materials used in production

cream Earthenware
Lead-glaze

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding : Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with greenish-blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple and grey oxide colours under lead-glaze
Lead-glazing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 28A
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.12-2015
Primary reference Number: 201362
Old object number: 28A
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.12-2006

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 26 May 2015 Updated: Tuesday 14 February 2017

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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