White salt-glazed stoneware painted in polychrome enamels with a shepherd and shepherdess in a landscape
White stoneware, thrown, with moulded handle and spout, salt-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, pale and dark pink, and black enamels. The pot has a globular body with a crabstock handle and spout, and a very slightly concical cover (A) with an upturned flower knob, and a small round air vent. One side is decorated with a seated shepherdess and a standing shepherd, both holding crooks, in a landscape with pink clouds overhead. On the other side there is a a house with a fence in front of it beside a river with a church on the opposite bank, and pink clouds overhead. The cover is decorated with two small towers with a cross above each, linked by walls, with a tree and bushes in the background and pink and greyish-blue clouds overhead. The flower has a yellow centre and a brownish-red edge. The handle and spout are decorated with green spots.
History note: Messrs. A.F. Allbrook, 24 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London, from whom purchased by Sir Ivor Batchelor on March 1972
Bequeathed by Sir and Lady Batchelor
Height: 10.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2006-01-30) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, yellow, pale and dark pink, and black)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Handle-spout
Length 18.8 cm
Body
Handle
Spout
Accession number: C.95 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 146213
Old object number: 1
Old loan number: AAL.95 & A-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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