IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 205099 accession number: C.129-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 11 August 2015 updated: Monday 15 February 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain moulded and painted in blue under lead-glaze. Shell-shaped with a wavy rim, and scrolled handle, standing on an oval foot which is concave underneath. The sides are fluted like those of a shell and there is a scallop shell and a pair of entwined dolphins in relief under the upward-tilting lip. The ear-shaped handle has a projecting thumpiece at the top and a C curve at its lower end. The outlines of the shell on the sides, and the shell below the lip are picked out in blue, as are the edges at the top. A trefoil leaf is painted on each side of the handle,. The foot is decorated with a series of striped arches rising from a blue band round the edge. The outside of the handle has a star at the top, and a stylized foliage spray down the back. Inside the lip there is a border of trellis and a formal plant motif, and on the bottom of the interior, a stem with leaves. object type: soft-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue title: butter boat NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew’s, Fife; on loan since 2006 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Batchelor Collection creditline: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/205099 PEOPLE ------------------- Batchelor, Ivor Ralph Campbell Sir Batchelor, Honor TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted underglaze in blue moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George II culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.9 dimension: Length units: cm value: 11.4