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Possibly
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Factory)
Possibly
Unidentified Yorkshire factory
(Production)
Cream-coloured, lead-glazed earthenware oval dessert dish, with pierced decoration in the form of flowerheads.
Cream-coloured earthenware, moulded, pierced and lead-glazed. Oval, with deep curved sides, everted at the rim, standing on an oval footring. It has a moulded feathered edge with four shells at the cardinal points and lightly fluted sides, with four areas of piercing in a stylised flowerhead pattern.
History note: Messrs A.F. Allbrook, Essex, from whom purchased in May, 1985 by Sir Ivor Batchelor; Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor
Given by Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor
Height: 5.7 cm
Length: 30.3 cm
Width: 25.8 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1995-01-23)
by
Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
Late 18th century
George III
Circa
1780
CE
-
1790
CE
The dish was attributed to Leeds Pottery on accession but this is doubtful. See Documentation, Walton.
Decoration
cream-coloured Earthenware Lead-glaze
Moulding : Cream-coloured earthenware, moulded, pierced and lead-glazed.
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.5-1995
Primary reference Number: 75398
Old object number: 133
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Dessert dish"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75398 Accessed: 2022-07-02 00:21:52
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