Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain teapot painted underglaze in blue with 'Mansfield' pattern
Soft-paste porcelain painted in blue under slightly blue glaze. The globular pot stands on a footring and has a cylindrical neck, a small curved spout and a rolled loop handle. There are five holes forming a circle in the wall behind the spout, and an impressed circle in the centre of the base. The slightly domed cover has a narrow flange, a ventilation hole and a knob in the form of a flower on a stalk with two leaves. The underside of the flange is unglazed. Both sides of the pot are decorated with 'Mansfield' pattern comprising a large complex flower with below and to right and left sprays of stylized leaves and flowers, and round the neck a border of diaper pattern panels and scrolls. There is a floral spray on the underside of the spout and spiral with a tail on its top. The cover is decorated with a floral spray and a blue band round the edge.
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew’s, Fife; on loan since 2006
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest
Height: 13 cm
Length: 18.7 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
Mansfield pattern was very common and popular over a long period from c. 1757 to 1780. Branyon et al (see Documentation) point out that the name is 20th century. Comparable patterns were used by Bow, Lowestoft, Chaffers and Christians, Liverpool, Plymouth and Derby. A printed version was made at Caughley. Large numbers of fragments and glost wasters have been found on the Worcester factory site, ‘at almost every level of the factory site excavations’.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
presumed steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white stick-on label
Accession number: C.127 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 205097
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.127 & A-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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