Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware dish painted in polychrome with a flowering tree and stylized plants
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue, green, and red. Circular with a sloping rim, curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footring. (Archer's Shape E) In the well there is an Oriental style flowering tree, and other plants with an insect flying on the left, enclosed by two narrow concentric circles. The rim has a border of floral sprays alternating with groups of leaves on vertical stems with two narrow blue lines below and one close to the edge. On the reverse of the well there are blue crosses alternating with pairs of short strokes. The glaze on the reverse has many pinholes and two peg marks on the rim, a third is only just visible.
History note: C.H. Spiers; Louis Gautier (c. 1867-1943). 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: 33.9 cm
Height: 4.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1725
CE
-
1735
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, green and red)
buff
Earthenware
greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue, green, and red which appears slightly upstanding from the surface; the glaze on the reverse has many pin holes and two peg marks on the rim; another is faintly visible
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with cut corners, now discoloured brownish
Accession number: C.55-2015
Primary reference Number: 201805
Old object number: 45
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.55-2015
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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