Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted in polychrome with a bird in a Chinese garden
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, manganese-purple and a little black. Circular with a wide slightly sloping rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footrim. The front is decorated on the right with flowering plants springing from a purple rock formation and further to the left, a yellow bird perching on a blue fence with a smaller plant beside it. There are three peg marks on the underside of the rim, and a script J in the middle
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: 20.7 cm
Height: 2.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George II
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, manganese-purple, and black)
buff
Earthenware
greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, manganese-purple and a little black
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.81-2015
Primary reference Number: 201842
Old object number: 113
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.81-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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