Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Off-white stoneware, slip-cast, with applied handle, and salt-glaze. The jug has a roughly oval base with scalloped edges, slightly depressed bulbous sides, which are lightly fluted, and a short neck with a projecting lip and scalloped rim. The ear-shaped handle is reeded and has a pinched kick at the lower end. The sides are decorated with six integrally cast slanting garlands of flowers and foliage in relief.
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)
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest
Height: 8.2 cm
Length: 8.2 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
Mid 18th Century
Circa
1750
CE
-
1765
CE
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Jug
off-white Stoneware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.99-2015
Primary reference Number: 206789
Old object number: 48
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.99-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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