Nottingham pottery tankard incised with a flowering bush

An image of Tankard/Mug. Unidentified Nottingham pottery, England. Cylindrical with slightly projecting base, two projecting bands below the handle and one level with its junction with the body at the top, and a row of oval beading round the rim. The ear-shaped handle is reeded and has an upward kick at the bottom. The front is incised with a flowering bush painted with dark brown slip. Four stilt marks on base. Brown salt-glazed stoneware, thrown, turned, rouletted, incised and painted with dark-brown slip. Height, whole, 18.0 cm, diameter, base, 11.3 cm, width, whole incl handle, 14.5 cm, circa 1750-1770. Production Note: Incised and slip-painted decoration is the rarest kind of decoration on Nottingham salt-glazed stoneware, and has been found on dated objects ranging from 1747 to 1771. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest.

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Tankard/Mug. Unidentified Nottingham pottery, England. Cylindrical with slightly projecting base, two projecting bands below the handle and one level with its junction with the body at the top, and a row of oval beading round the rim. The ear-shaped handle is reeded and has an upward kick at the bottom. The front is incised with a flowering bush painted with dark brown slip. Four stilt marks on base. Brown salt-glazed stoneware, thrown, turned, rouletted, incised and painted with dark-brown slip. Height, whole, 18.0 cm, diameter, base, 11.3 cm, width, whole incl handle, 14.5 cm, circa 1750-1770. Production Note: Incised and slip-painted decoration is the rarest kind of decoration on Nottingham salt-glazed stoneware, and has been found on dated objects ranging from 1747 to 1771. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest.

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Accession Number: C.1-1994
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 891 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 7.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 111.45kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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18th Century _WF_Batchelor brown cylindrical drinking vessel English Fitz_AA floral flowers Georgian glazed handle handled incised mugs Nottingham Pottery pottery slip slipware tankard thrown turned vessel

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