Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware cream jug painted in blue with a bird perched on a branch
Buff earthenware, thrown with applied handle, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue. The pear-shaped jug has a slight lip, an applied loop hand, and stands on a footrim. The sides are decorated with a bird perching on a branch in an Oriental garden with flowering plants and rocks. Below the rim there is a border of leaves, and down the back of the handle horizontal lines.
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
Height: 8.4 cm
Width: 7.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George II
Circa
1750
-
1760
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt oxide)
Body
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.61-2015
Primary reference Number: 201833
Old object number: 63
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.61-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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