Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware dish painted in dull polychrome with a farm in a landscape
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-blue and painted in greyish-blue, green, yellow, dull pinkish-red, and dark manganese-purple. Circular with a steeply sloping rim, and deep curved sides, standing on a footring. (Archer's Shape E) The front is painted overall with a landscape on the right of which is a tiled farmhouse beside a willow tree and two hay stacks within a fence; in the foreground, a mass of blue, green, and yellow, perhaps representing a pond; further to the left ,a group of buildings beside two low hills; and in the distance two trees on the left, and one close to the house. Six birds fly overhead.
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: 34.2 cm
Height: 5.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George III
Circa
1750
-
1775
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, green, yellow, dull pinkish-red and dark manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
greyish-blue
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed blue and painted in greyish-blue, green, yellow, dull pinkish-red, and dark manganese-purple
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.69-2015
Primary reference Number: 204576
Old object number: 85
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.69-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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