Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Earthenware sauceboat press-moulded with cows under a tree on one side and sheep on the other and decorated with underglaze oxides under lead-glaze
Dark cream earthenware press-moulded in two halves with integral relief decoration, with an applied moulded handle, and decorated with green, blue, and manganese-brown oxide colours under lead-glaze. The underside of the base is unglazed in the middle. The sauceboat stands on an oval base and has bulging sides and a wide curved lip. The small loop handle has a small sloping leaf at the top which forms the thumbpiece, a long leaf down its back, and a smaller leaf horizontal leaf at the bottom. One side is decorated with three sheep and a lamb in a landscape with a tree behind them, and daisies and grass in the foreground. The other side has three cows and a calf in a landscape with a tree behind them and daisies and grass in the forground. On the left and right of the scenes there are scrolls which form panels below the lip and around the handle. These are filled with vertical wickerwork and roses sprays. The exterior and interior are streaked with the oxide colours which have run downwards.
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; Sir Ivor Batchelor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest
Height: 8.9 cm
Length: 18.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
1765
CE
Sauceboats of this bucolic design were also made in white salt-glazed stoneware
Decoration composed of oxide colours ( greyish-blue, green, manganese-brown)
Press-moulding
: Dark cream earthenware press-moulded in two halves with integral relief decoration, with an applied moulded handle, and decorated with green, blue, and manganese-brown oxide colours under lead-glaze. The underside of the base is unglazed in the middle
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.16-2015
Primary reference Number: 201367
Old object number: 57
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.16-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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