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Plate: The Boar and the Wolf
Factory:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Probably)
Printer:
Unknown
(Uncertain)
Printer:
Battersea Enamel Manufactory
(Uncertain)
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
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1755
CE
-
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
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