Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Earthenware plate, press-moulded and decorated with underglaze oxide colours and green and yellow glazes
Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded with integral reliefs on the rim, and decorated with manganese -brown, green and yellow oxide colours under lead-glaze. The circular plate has a raised wavy edge, a slightly concave rim, sloping sides and a flat centre. The latter is mottled overall with grey and has a central splodge of green and yellow. The rim has a repeating border of four pairs of serrated leaves over basket work alternating with four butterflies or moths flanked by floral sprays. The moths and pairs of leaves are painted in green and yellow which has run down into the well. The whole of the reverse is dabbed or sponged with manganese-brown which is denser in the middle and has run outwards towards the rim.
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 through The Art Fund
Diameter: 23.6 cm
Height: 2.5 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
-
1770
CE
Decoration composed of metallic oxides ( manganese-brown, green, yellow and grey)
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.20-2015
Primary reference Number: 201535
Old object number: 88
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.20-2015
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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