Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware cup with eight sides and integral allegorical and heraldic decoration in relief
Off-white stoneware, slip-cast, with an applied handle, and salt-glaze. The cup stands on an octagonal foot. It has eight straight sides, and a reeded loop handle with a kick at its lower end. The sides are decorated with eight vertical panels of allegorical and heraldic motifs, one above the other. Beginning on the right of the handle these are: two putti holding up a heart, a monster and a man's head in profile to right in a medallion; a swimming swan, Cupid riding a lion, the Fox and the Stork from Aesop's Fables; partly illegible one figure on right, a unicorn, and a putto amidst foliage; a basket piled with fruit, a man holding a staff accompanied by a hound, with above a bird perching amidst foliage; illegible, a game bird, a stag, and above, a shield of arms; a kettle on a hearth, three men around a table, with a swag above; an arabesque, a double-headed Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire with a crown above; two putti holding up a heart, a nude man or putto holding a globe on his shoulder with a shield of arms above.
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: 6 cm
Length: 7.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
1755
CE
These strange groups of motifs occur on other teawares, such as sugar basins, and milk jugs. They also occur on C.583-1928 and C.584-1928 , cups of different shapes.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Rim
Width 5.6 cm
Cup
off-white Stoneware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.108-2015
Primary reference Number: 206811
Old object number: 81
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.108-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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