Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted in polychrome with a house in a coastal landscape
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in green, yellow, brown, and manganese-purple. The plate has an almost flat rim, deep curved sides, and stands on a footrim. The front is decorated with a coastal landscape with a man in a small boat in the foreground, and behind him a tower house flanked by trees and two low buildings, with a haystack between two trees on the right, fencing and three round bushes in front, and two trees and a small pavilion flanked by low trees on the left. Above there are two v-shaped formations of flying birds, with a group of four between them. There are three peg marks on the underside of the rim.
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
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( green, yellow, brown, manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in green, yellow, brown, and manganese-purple high-temperature colours
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.66-2015
Primary reference Number: 201839
Old object number: 78
Entry number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.66-2015
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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