Pottery: Unidentified Nottingham pottery
Brown stoneware, thrown, and turned, with applied handle, and lustrous salt-glaze. The cylindrical mug has a slightly projecting skirt with a horizontal ridge above it level with the lower end of the handle, and a turned band level with the upper end of the handle. The ear-shaped handle has a central vertical ridge and a kick at its lower end.
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest
Height: 6.8 cm
Width: 7.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
The slightly lustrous salt-glaze is a characteristic feature of some Nottingham brown salt-glazed stoneware.
Surfacew
composed of
salt-glaze
( slightly lustrous)
Base
Diameter 5.5 cm
Body
brown Stoneware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.93-2015
Primary reference Number: 204823
Old object number: 41
Entry form: 648
Old loan number: AAL.93-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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