Factory:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Possibly)
Factory:
Unidentified Yorkshire factory
(Possibly)
Off-white earthenware painted under blue-tinted lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, and brown. The circular plate has a wavy outline with a shell edge, a sloping rim, curved sides and flat centre, and stands on a slight footring. The well is decorated with a peacock perching on a stylized tree with four branches. The shell-edged rim is blue. On the reverse of the rim there are three sets of three spur marks
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew’s, Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January)
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund
Diameter: 21 cm
Height: 2.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1790
CE
-
1810
CE
This plate has a shell-edge which was one of the most popular moulded designs on plates and dishes from the 1770s to the mid 19th century. The edging was often painted underglaze in blue, as here, or in green.
Decoration composed of underglaze colours ( blue, sage green, yellow, brown)
slightly blue tinted
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Moulding
: Pale cream earthenware painted in blue, sage green, yellow, dark yellow, and brown under slightly blue-tinted lead-glazed
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.40-2015
Primary reference Number: 201787
Old object number: 86A
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.40-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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