Factory: Unidentified Liverpool factory (Probably)
Pearlware painted in enamels with floral spray, sprigs, butterfly, bird in flight and bug
White earthenware, moulded, with applied moulded handle, covered with blue tinted lead-glaze, unevenly applied, and painted in green, pale puce, red, and purple enamels. The can is cylindrical with fluted sides, and a loop handle. The upper part is decorated with four swags of green and purple foliage and flowers hanging from a dotted border with half daisy heads inside the swags. Below there is one large floral spray , two floral sprigs, and four leaves. The outside of the handle is painted in purple with five short lines, a half flower, a dot and a long stroke.
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew’s, Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January)
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art fund
Diameter: 5.5 cm
Height: 5.9 cm
Width: 7.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1780
CE
-
1790
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green and purple)
Cup
Handle
slightly blue tinted
Lead-glaze
white
Earthenware
Accession number: C.41-2015
Primary reference Number: 201633
Old object number: 140
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.41-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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