Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Cream earthenware moulded with fruit and nuts and decorated with coloured glazes
Cream earthenware, press-moulded and decorated with blue, manganese-purple and grey oxide colours and green and clear lead-glazes.The oval dish has a scalloped edge, sloping rim and deep curved well with a flat area in the middle. The rim is decorated in relief round the edge with interlacing branches forming elliptical shapes, from which hang twelve bunches of leaves and fruits, four of three kinds, one of which is of pears. The rest of the surface is covered with dotted circles. The front is covered with streaks of blue, green, manganese and dark grey, and the reverse is mottled with grey.
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; on loan since 2006
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest
Height: 2.9 cm
Length: 27 cm
Width: 23.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George II
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
1765
CE
Decoration composed of oxide colours ( glue, green, manganese-purple, and black)
cream
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.24-2015
Primary reference Number: 201374
Old object number: 121
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.24-2014
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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