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
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
3rd quarter 18th Century
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
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Mug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/204823 Accessed: 2023-06-06 10:57:49
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/204823
|title=Mug
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-06 10:57:49|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-204823
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