IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 201805 accession number: C.55-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 9 June 2015 updated: Tuesday 15 May 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: tin-glazed earthenware dish painted in polychrome with a flowering tree and stylized plants title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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) 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 through The Art Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201805 PEOPLE ------------------- Batchelor, Ivor Ralph Campbell Sir Batchelor, Honor TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1725 - 1735 creation date earliest: 1725 creation date latest: 1735 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 33.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.4 CITATIONS -------- Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum ---