Staffordshire dessert dish moulded with fruit and nuts

An image of Dessert dish. Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery. Moulded with fruit, nuts, rococo scrolls and diaper, and decorated with coloured glazes. The circular dish has a pierced basket-work border, curved sides, and flat central area. The front is decorated with a central medallion with a yellow rope edging and wickerwork ground enclosing three paired scrolls within a roughly triangular frame of scrolls all in green. On the sides there are three scroll-edged compartments, each enclosing four different fruits and nuts on twigs with leaves suspended from the basket-work border. The space beween the fruits and the central medallion is filled with panels of trellis diaper alternating with panels of striations. Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded with integral relief decoration, pierced, and decorated with green, yellow and manganese-brown coloured glazes. The green glaze does not cover the whole of the area inside the footring, but shows the dark cream body. Height, whole, 3.2 cm, diameter, whole, 28 cm, circa 1755-1765. Rococo. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Dessert dish. Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery. Moulded with fruit, nuts, rococo scrolls and diaper, and decorated with coloured glazes. The circular dish has a pierced basket-work border, curved sides, and flat central area. The front is decorated with a central medallion with a yellow rope edging and wickerwork ground enclosing three paired scrolls within a roughly triangular frame of scrolls all in green. On the sides there are three scroll-edged compartments, each enclosing four different fruits and nuts on twigs with leaves suspended from the basket-work border. The space beween the fruits and the central medallion is filled with panels of trellis diaper alternating with panels of striations. Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded with integral relief decoration, pierced, and decorated with green, yellow and manganese-brown coloured glazes. The green glaze does not cover the whole of the area inside the footring, but shows the dark cream body. Height, whole, 3.2 cm, diameter, whole, 28 cm, circa 1755-1765. Rococo. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.22-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 900 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 780.42kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1

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18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor basket-work baskets basketwork circular dessert dish dish Early Rococo earthenware English Fitz_AA fruits Georgian glazed green lead-glazed leaf leaves moulded nuts pierced pottery press moulded Rococo serving piece Staffordshire Pottery tableware trellis wicker wickerwork

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