Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted in blue with a mill-house in a landscape and a bridge in a landscape
Pale buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed pale greyish-white, and painted in blue. Circular, with a narrow rim, shallow sides and flat centre, standing on a footrim. (Archer's Shape ) The central area of the plate is decorated with a bridge, a mill house with a tree to the left, a smaller tree and hillocks with tufts of grass to the right, and in the distance to left, a small house and a fence. A flock of six birds is flying overhead to right of centre. There are three peg marks on the back of the rim, and a large 'A' on the base.
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 the Art Fund
Diameter: 20 cm
Height: 1.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration
blue from cobalt
High-temperature colour
pale buff
Earthenware
pale greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.63-2015
Primary reference Number: 201836
Old object number: 67
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.63-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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