Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Pottery:
Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware plate, press-moulded and decorated with underglaze oxide colours and green and yellow glazes
Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded with integral reliefs on the rim, and decorated with manganese -brown, green and yellow oxide colours under lead-glaze. The circular plate has a raised wavy edge, a slightly concave rim, sloping sides and a flat centre. The latter is mottled overall with grey and has a central splodge of green and yellow. The rim has a repeating border of four pairs of serrated leaves over basket work alternating with four butterflies or moths flanked by floral sprays. The moths and pairs of leaves are painted in green and yellow which has run down into the well. The whole of the reverse is dabbed or sponged with manganese-brown which is denser in the middle and has run outwards towards the rim.
Notes
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew’s, Fife; Sir Ivor Batchelor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006
Legal notes
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 23.6 cm
Height: 2.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2015-04-27)
by
Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
Dating
18th Century, third quarter
George II
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
1770
CE
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
metallic oxides
( manganese-brown, green, yellow and grey)
Materials used in production
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Lead-glazing
Press-moulding
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
- Text: 88
- Location: On the base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.20-2015
Primary reference Number: 201535
Old object number: 88
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.20-2015
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 2 June 2015
Updated: Monday 14 May 2018
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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