Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with European figures, floral panels and diaper
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue. Octagonal, with two long and two short incurved sides, four straight narrow canted sides, a flat shoulder and short cylindrical neck. One long side is decorated with a gentleman wearing a hat and full-skirted coat, standing with his right hand on his hip and his left hand resting on a cane. The other has a standing servant wearing a hat and voluminous clothing leaning forward on a staff, and holding the leash of a seated hound. The short sides are each decorated with a vertical flowering branch. The shoulders and canted sides are covered with a trellis diaper pattern with four spots in the middle of each lozenge.
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: 11.4 cm
Length: 9.4 cm
Width: 7.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George III
Circa
1760
-
1770
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
( pale bluish-white)
buff Earthenware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.84-2015
Primary reference Number: 201841
Old object number: 118
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.84-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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