Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
(Pottery)
Redware with applied white reliefs
Red earthenware, thrown, with applied lip and handle, decorated with mould-applied sprigs coloured with cobalt oxide and white slip under lead-glaze. The pear-shaped jug stands on a low foot. It has a sparrow-beak lip and a loop handle of D section with a leaf-shaped kick at the lower end. On the front there are four plant sprigs, touched with blue. Both sides of the rim are encircled by a slip band, and there is a splash of slip on the top of the handle.
History note: Charles J. Lomax Collection. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January)
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through the Art Fund
Height: 9.8 cm
Width: 9.1 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2015-04-27)
by
Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
Second quarter of 18th century
George II
Circa
1730
-
1745
Decoration composed of cobalt oxide Body Reliefs
Inscription present: circular off-white paper stick-on-label, printed in green to resemble a Staffordshire slipware dish with a bust of King Charles in the Boscobel oak tree and criss-cross border interrupted at the bottom with the collectors name . Across the tree is a panel held by a lion and unicorn with the number hand-written on it
Accession number: C.10-2015
Primary reference Number: 201358
Old object number: 138
Old loan number: AAL.10-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Jug"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201358 Accessed: 2022-06-27 16:08:30
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