Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware dish decorated with fruit, foliage and panels of trellis pattern
Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed. The dish is oval with with eight lobes round the edge of the rim, and a shallow well. The central areas is decorated with trellis diaper pattern. This is surrounded by a raised contour line around eight small sprays of fruit and leaves pointing inwards from eight points on the edge. The eight lobes are decorated with elliptical panels of trellis pattern.
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew’s, Fife; Sir Ivor died 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January)
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest
Height: 1.7 cm
Length: 22.8 cm
Width: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
1770
CE
The decoration suggests that this dish may have been used for fruit or nuts forming a simple dessert after the one or two course dinners consumed every day by middle class families in the mid 18th century.
Surface composed of salt-glaze
off-white Stoneware
Press-moulding
: Off-white stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.117-2015
Primary reference Number: 206810
Old object number: 144
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.117-2015
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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