Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Earthenware decorated with oxide colours under lead-glaze
Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with greenish-blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple and grey oxide colours under lead-glaze. Octagonal with a sloping rim, shallow sides and flat centre. The rim is decorated with a moulded trellis diaper border broken at the eight angles by a panel flanked by foliage in relief. The well is mainly dappled in grey with five small areas dabbed with all the colours The diaper pattern on the rim is grey and the panels and foliage have touches of all the colours. The reverse is mottle overall in grey.
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; on loan since 2006
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest
Diameter: 24.2 cm
Height: 2.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George II
George III
Circa
1750
CE
-
1770
CE
Decoration composed of oxide colours ( greenish-blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple and grey)
cream
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Press-moulding
: Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with greenish-blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple and grey oxide colours under lead-glaze
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.12-2015
Primary reference Number: 201362
Old object number: 28A
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.12-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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