IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 201837 accession number: C.64-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 16 June 2015 updated: Tuesday 15 May 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue. The plate is circular with a narrow sloping rim, shallow curved sides and flat base (Archer's shape H). The middle is decorated with a stylized squirrel feeding on the ground. It has large ears like a rabbit and a bushy tail. To the left of it there are two groups of schematic birds, and below it five short diagonal lines crossed diagonally by five more. On the rim there are groups of four spots alternating with stylized plants extending inwards from the outer edge. There are three spur marks on the convex reverse. object type: tin-glazed earthenware platepainted in blue with a squirrel with a large tail and ears title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew’s, Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Batchelor Collection creditline: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201837 PEOPLE ------------------- Batchelor, Ivor Ralph Campbell Sir Batchelor, Honor SUBJECTS ------------------- squirrel squirrel TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1725 - 1735 creation date earliest: 1725 creation date latest: 1735 culture: 18th Century, second quarter# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 19.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3 CITATIONS -------- English Delftware in the Bristol Collection ---