Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Pottery:
Lambeth High Street Pottery
Proprietor of pottery:
Griffith, William
Entities
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Plate
- plate with scalloped rim
Categories
Description
Tin-glazed earthenware plate with a powdered blue border, and centre painted polychrome with Chinese flowers
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, and decorated with a powder-blue ground, and painting in blue, green, yellow and red. Circular with a scalloped and fluted rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre standing on a footrim. The rim is powdered in blue except for four reserved flowers and stems of foliage and flowers scratched through the ground. The central area is painted in polychrome with bamboo, a flowering tree, a large flower, leaves, and an insect. There are three small peg marks on the underside of the rim.
Notes
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)
Legal notes
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 23 cm
Height: 2 cm
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2015-04-27)
by
Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
Dating
18th Century, third quarter
George II
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
School or Style
Chinoiserie
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, red)
cobalt oxide
Materials used in production
buff
Earthenware
greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, and decorated with powder blue, sgraffito, and painting in blue, green, yellow and red
Tin-glazing
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
- Text: 116
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.83-2015
Primary reference Number: 201844
Old object number: 116
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.83-2006
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 16 June 2015
Updated: Friday 23 October 2020
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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