Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Factory:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Off-white stoneware, press-moulded with integral relief decoration, and salt-glazed. Approximately diamond-shaped but with rounded, wavy sides and edges, and a flat base. The flat base of the inside is decorated with a symetrical arrangement of scrolling foliage, with a rope edging around the junction with the sides. Each of the lobes has a scalloped line about half-way up the side. The outside is undecorated.
Notes
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)
Legal notes
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 2.5 cm
Length: 16.6 cm
Width: 10.9 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2015-04-27)
by
Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
Dating
18th Century, Mid
George II
George III
Circa
1745
CE
-
1765
CE
Note
This form may be the one described as a 'flowerd spoon boat' in the accounts of Thomas and John Wedgwood of the Big House, Burslem
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Materials used in production
white
Stoneware
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: White stoneware, press-moulded with integral relief decoration, and salt-glazed
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
- Text: 115
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.107-2015
Primary reference Number: 205115
Old object number: 115
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.107-2006
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 11 August 2015
Updated: Sunday 21 November 2021
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
