Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Factory:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Off-white stoneware, slip-cast with integral relief decoration, and salt-glazed. The cup is of a deep, narrow bell-shape standing on a footring and has an applied reeded loop handle with a folded kick at the lower end. The lower part of the exterior is gadrooned. The upper part has three long vertical arrangements of S scrolls and and foliage in relief alternating with two smaller scroll motifs. Above, under the rim is a border of horizontal S scrolls
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: 7.1 cm
Width: 8.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2015-04-27)
by
Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
Dating
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
1755
CE
Note
This cup form may have been used for chocolate rather than tea. Because it is slip-cast it is extremely light in the hand.
School or Style
Baroque
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Rim
Diameter 6.7 cm
Cup
Materials used in production
off-white
Stoneware
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
- Text: 100/A
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.112-2015
Primary reference Number: 206787
Old object number: 100A
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.100A-2006
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 15 September 2015
Updated: Thursday 24 September 2015
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
