Glasshouse: Unidentified English glasshouse (Possibly)
Clear lead-glass, blown, and decorated with white and blue enamel. The jug stands on a flat, circular foot with a pontil mark in the centre. It has a bulbous lower part, a tall slender neck and a projecting lip. The applied loop handle is thicker at the top than at the lower end, which has a tooled double kick. The whole body is decorated with loops of opaque white enamel over which are wavy blue sloping horizontal bands of translucent blue enamel. The handle is undecorated.
History note: Howard Phillips, 11a Henrietta Place, London, from whom purchased in December, 1987; Sir Ivor and Lady Batchlor, 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
Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1800
CE
-
1820
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( opaque white and translucent blue)
Foot
Diameter 8.9 cm
Handle
clear Lead-glass
Blowing : Clear lead-glass, blown, and decorated with opaque white enamel loops and translucent blue enamel wavy horizontal lines; applied handle with tooled lower end
Inscription present: small rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.170-2015
Primary reference Number: 206912
Old object number: 66
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.172-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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