Pottery: Cockpit Hill Pottery (Probably)
Creamware, lead-glazed and painted in red and black enamels with flower sprays and the inscription, ‘John Lockey/Moor Mill 1772'
Cream earthenware, thrown, with applied handle, lead-glazed very pale yellow, unevenly on the base, and painted in red and black enamels. The jug has a barrel-shaped body, curving outwards towards the base, and narrowing towards the rim, which has an inserted lip. The strap handle terminates in a large serrated leaf. On the front, painted in black is the inscription 'Iohn + Lockey/Moor, Mill,1772', framed by sprays of stylized foliage with two floral sprigs above on the lip. On either side there is an arrangement of flowers and foliage with one sprig below on one side, and two horizontal leaves on the other. Inside the rim there is a chain border in red enamel.
Bequeathed by Sir and Lady Batchelor
Height: 16.4 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George III
Production date:
dated
AD 1772
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( red and black)
Body
Inscription present: large script
Inscription present: rectangular white stick-on label
Accession number: C.30-2015
Primary reference Number: 201558
Old Batchelor number: 12 103
Old loan number: AAL.30-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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