Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware dish painted in polychrome with a Chinese garden design
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in green, blue, yellow and red. Circular with a sloping rim, curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footring. (Archer's Shape E) The well is painted with a Chinese garden with a flowering tree on the right with a fence to the left, and two insects flying overhead, enclosed by two concentric blue circles, and a third a short distance away. On the rim there are three repeats of floral sprays flanking a green and blue rock-like motif, with two narrow blue bands below and one above. There are three peg marks on the underside of the rim
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: .4 cm
Height: 4.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, Mid
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, green, yellow, and red)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red high-temperature colours; three peg marks on the underside of the rim
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.44-2015
Primary reference Number: 201791
Old object number: 2
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL. 44-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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