These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Plate: The Boar and the Wolf
Probably
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Factory)
Uncertain
Unknown
(Printer)
Uncertain
Battersea Enamel Manufactory
(Printer)
White salt-glazed stoneware plate, transfer-printed in red in the middle with a scene from Aesop's fable, The Boar and the Wolf.
White salt-glazed stoneware, press-moulded and transfer-printed in red. Circular with a wavy shaped edge, sloping rim moulded with a trellis pattern interrupted by six pairs of foliage sprays, and shallow well. The middle is decorated with a scene from Aesop's Fable of the Boar and the Wolf. The rim is outlined in reddish-brown enamel.
History note: Jonathan Horne Antiques, 66c Kensington Church Street, London W8 4BY
Purchased with the G.H.W. Rylands Fund.
Diameter: 19.1 cm
Height: 1.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1992)
by
Jonathan Horne Antiques
Mid-18th Century
George II
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
1760
CE
Printed by an outside decorator, probably in Liverpool, London or Birmingham. Finds of painted fragments derived from prints which were also copied on printed salt-glazed stoneware plates, suggests that at least some of them were printed at the Battersea Enamel Manufactory at York House, but these were not Fable subjects.
Decoration: composed of enamel ( reddish-brown) ceramic printing colour ( red)
Moulding : White salt-glazed stoneware, moulded and transfer-printed in red.
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: circular yellow sticker
Inscription present: circular sticker
Inscription present: square with dark blue border (resembling a tile), printed with the vendor's name and address
Accession number: C.81-1992
Primary reference Number: 81784
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 (2020) "Plate"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/81784 Accessed: 2021-11-30 18:03:22
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/81784|title=Plate|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2021-11-30 18:03:22|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}
<div class="text-center my-3">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_81_1992.jpg" alt="Plate: The Boar and the Wolf" class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Plate: The Boar and the Wolf</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Accession Number: MAR.O.114-1912
Accession Number: MAR.C.15-1912
Accession Number: MAR.ARM.O.95-1912
Accession Number: 23.K.5-253
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
