Shell Dish or Tray
Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery (Probably)
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue. In the shape of a scallop or shallow cockle shell supported on three applied small conical feet. The inside is decorated in Chinese style with two figures crossing a bridge over a stream with a tree and rocks on the right of it. On the back there is a small smudge of blue
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
Height: 2.3 cm
Length: 9.4 cm
Width: 8.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George II
George III
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( in blue from cobalt oxide)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.59-2015
Primary reference Number: 201812
Old object number: 61
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.59-2015
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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