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Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware vase painted in polychrome enamels with an exotic bird amid flowering plants
White salt-glazed stoneware, thrown, and painted on the exterior in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, pink, and black enamels. The interior has many pale greyish-brown spots and speckles. The bell-shaped body of the vase has an inward curving rim. It is supported on a very short stem with an anulet attached to the conical foot. The exterior is decorated in Chinese famille rose style with an exotic bird and an insect among flowering trees and plants. The inward curving rim has a border of three narrow panels of turquoise and black trellis diaper alternating with three panels enclosing half a pink and yellow flower with six leaves. The foot has a wide border of four lappet-like motifs decorated with formal flowers and foliage .
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew’s, Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006; Lady Batchelor, died 2014
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund
Diameter: 11.5 cm
Height: 12.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1755
CE
-
1765
CE
Enamelling on salt-glazed stoneware was introduced into North Staffordshire about 1750.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, turquoise, yellow, pink, and black)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Foot
Diameter 7.9 cm
white Stoneware
Throwing
: Stoneware, thrown, salt-glazed, and painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, pink, and black enamels
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.105-2015
Primary reference Number: 205102
Old object number: 74
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.105-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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