IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 201367 accession number: C.16-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 26 May 2015 updated: Friday 11 September 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark cream earthenware press-moulded in two halves with integral relief decoration, with an applied moulded handle, and decorated with green, blue, and manganese-brown oxide colours under lead-glaze. The underside of the base is unglazed in the middle. The sauceboat stands on an oval base and has bulging sides and a wide curved lip. The small loop handle has a small sloping leaf at the top which forms the thumbpiece, a long leaf down its back, and a smaller leaf horizontal leaf at the bottom. One side is decorated with three sheep and a lamb in a landscape with a tree behind them, and daisies and grass in the foreground. The other side has three cows and a calf in a landscape with a tree behind them and daisies and grass in the forground. On the left and right of the scenes there are scrolls which form panels below the lip and around the handle. These are filled with vertical wickerwork and roses sprays. The exterior and interior are streaked with the oxide colours which have run downwards. object type: earthenware sauceboat press-moulded with cows under a tree on one side and sheep on the other and decorated with underglaze oxides under lead-glaze title: sauce boat NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; Sir Ivor Batchelor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201367 PEOPLE ------------------- Batchelor, Ivor Ralph Campbell Sir Batchelor, Honor TECHNIQUES ---------- Dark cream earthenware press-moulded in two halves with integral relief decoration, with an applied moulded handle, and decorated with green, blue, and manganese-brown oxide colours under lead-glaze. The underside of the base is unglazed in the middle press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.9 dimension: Length units: cm value: 18.7 CITATIONS -------- White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles ---