Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Off-white stoneware, slip-cast with integral relief decoration, and salt-glazed. The cup is of a deep, narrow bell-shape standing on a footring and has an applied reeded loop handle with a folded kick at the lower end. The lower part of the exterior is gadrooned. The upper part has three long vertical arrangements of S scrolls and and foliage in relief alternating with two smaller scroll motifs. Above, under the rim is a border of horizontal S scrolls
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
Height: 7.1 cm
Width: 8.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
1755
CE
This cup form may have been used for chocolate rather than tea. Because it is slip-cast it is extremely light in the hand.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Rim
Diameter 6.7 cm
Cup
off-white Stoneware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.112-2015
Primary reference Number: 206787
Old object number: 100A
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.100A-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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