Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Earthenware decorated with underglaze oxides; tortoiseshell ware
Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with blue, green, yellow and greyish-black oxide colours under lead-glaze. The plate is octagonal with a milled edge, almost flat rim, slightly sloping sides and flat centre. The front is mottled in grey oxide colour and has four areas on the rim and five in the centre dabbed with blue, green, and yellow which have run into each other to produce a 'tortoiseshell' effect. The back is dabbed or sponged with grey overall.
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; on loan since 2006
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest
Diameter: 23.3 cm
Height: 1.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
18th Century, third quarter
George II
George III
Circa
1750
CE
-
1770
CE
This plate reproduces a form found in silver and pewter
Decoration composed of oxide colours ( greyish-blue, green, yellow, and dark grey)
dark cream
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Press-moulding
: Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with greyish-blue, green, yellow and dark grey metallic oxide colours under lead-glaze
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.17-2015
Primary reference Number: 201371
Old object number: 64
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.17-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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