IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 201374 accession number: C.24-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 26 May 2015 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded and decorated with blue, manganese-purple and grey oxide colours and green and clear lead-glazes.The oval dish has a scalloped edge, sloping rim and deep curved well with a flat area in the middle. The rim is decorated in relief round the edge with interlacing branches forming elliptical shapes, from which hang twelve bunches of leaves and fruits, four of three kinds, one of which is of pears. The rest of the surface is covered with dotted circles. The front is covered with streaks of blue, green, manganese and dark grey, and the reverse is mottled with grey. object type: cream earthenware moulded with fruit and nuts and decorated with coloured glazes title: oval dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; on loan since 2006 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Batchelor Collection creditline: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201374 SUBJECTS ------------------- pear nuts pear nuts TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding 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 II culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.9 dimension: Length units: cm value: 27 dimension: Width units: cm value: 23.2