Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
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Categories
Description
Press-moulded earthenware dish decorated with cream, reddish-brown and dark brown slips under lead-glaze. Decorated with a central medallion containing the bust of a man, surrounded by borders of rosettes and semicircles.
Buff earthenware press-moulded over a hump mould to create a design in relief on the interior, and impressed round the edge with a striated tool or shell. The inside is coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in orange-brown and very dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. Two suspension holes were pierced at the top before firing. The reverse is undecorate, and has a large pale rectangular area where a label was formerly attached. The inside is decorated with a central medallion enclosing the bust of a man three-quarters to left, with a garland below him and a curved curtain on either side. This is surrounded by a wide border of twelve adjacent rosettes in relief and a narrower border of circles in squares and scallops impressed with tiny circles.
Notes
History note: Thomas Bateman (1821-61), Lomberdale House, Derbyshire; Sotheby's, 14-15 June, 1893, The Bateman Heirlooms, lot 368; Thomas Boynton, Norman House, Bridlington; sold Stoke-on-Trent, Charles Butters, 23 March 1920, Catalogue of the Early English Pottery and Wedgwood Ware, the property of the late Mr. Thomas Boynton, FSA of . . ., lot 67; bought at a hammer price of £20 by Mr Frank Stoner on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 35.7 cm
Height: 4.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
17th Century, Late
18th Century, Early
1680
-
1720
Components of the work
Inside Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream, orange-brown, and dark brown)
Inside Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Suspension Holes
Materials used in production
buff
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware press-moulded over a hump mould to create a design in relief on the interior, and impressed round the edge with a striated tool or shell. The inside is coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in orange-brown and very dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. Two suspension holes were pierced at the top before firing. The reverse is undecorated.
Inscription or legends present
- Text: Slipware dish, Cockpit Hall Derby
- Location: On back
- Method of creation: Hand-written
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: a small part of a circular white paper stick on label printed in black
- Text: L. GLAISH
- Location: On back
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: rectangular judging by mark left on back of dish
- Text: ‘368 A curiously embossed dish decorated in yellow, red and brown slip, with portrait in centre surrounded by twelve rosettes within escalloped border, presented to Mr Bateman in 1845 by Mr Gervase Key, in whose family it had been for nearly two hundred years, diameter 12 inches’.
- Location: On reverse
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.184-1928
Primary reference Number: 72742
Old object number: 4708
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 21 January 2025
Last processed: Tuesday 29 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
