These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Factory: Humphrey Palmer's Factory (Possibly)
White salt-glazed stoneware mug with scratch-blue floral decoration
Off-white stoneware with incised decoration coloured with cobalt blue (scratch-blue decoration) and salt-glazed. Cylindrical with slightly everted rim, and a loop handle with a small kick at the lower end. Decorated on the front with a spray of stylized flowers and foliage in scratch-blue technique. There are two blue spots on opposing sides of the base.
History note: Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth; Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January); Lady Batchelor, died 2014
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund
Diameter: 5.3 cm
Height: 6.8 cm
Width: 7.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Scratch blue decoration on white salt-glazed stoneware was intended to resemble Chinese blue and white porcelain, but the effect is very crude in comparison. Designs were created by incising them into the unfired object, then dusting cobalt oxide into the lines, and removing the surplus before firing and salt-glazing. Most of the designs are of flowers and foliage, with occasional representations of birds, animals, and human figures. Inscriptions, however, are common and dates range from 1742 to 1778. Scratch blue was produced by many potters in north Staffordshire, and for shorter periods in Bovey Tracey, Swansea, and Derby, where a Swedish traveller, R.R. Angerstein saw it being made in 1754. Apart from a mug incised with the name of the Hanley potter, Enoch Booth in 1742, it is rarely possibly to attribute Staffordshire scratch blue to a specific maker. The floral motif on this mug is similar in style, but not details, to fragments found on the site of a factory occupied by Humphrey Palmer in Hanley between 1750 and 1778, but it is not certain that it was made there.
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
off-white Stoneware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.101-2015
Primary reference Number: 206786
Old object number: 50
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.101-2006
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 (2024) "Mug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206786 Accessed: 2024-12-22 14:33:14
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206786
|title=Mug
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 14:33:14|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-206786
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/c_101_2015_1_201810_mfj22_dc2.jpg"
alt="Mug"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Mug</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
