Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted in blue with a kiln in a landscape
Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue. Circular with a steeply sloping rim, curved sides and flat base. The middle is painted with a smoking kiln between two lower buildings. On the left there is a plant and on the right, and to the right and below, a rock, fence and foliage. Two groups of schematic birds fly overhead. There are three peg marks on the reverse 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
Diameter: 22.4 cm
Height: 3.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, second quarter#
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1740
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue high temperature colour
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label now beige
Accession number: C.87-2015
Primary reference Number: 204565
Old object number: 124
Entry form number: 648
Old loan num,ber: AAL.87-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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