IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206811 accession number: C.108-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 22 September 2015 updated: Thursday 24 September 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: white salt-glazed stoneware cup with eight sides and integral allegorical and heraldic decoration in relief title: cup NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew’s, Fife; Sir Ivor died 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Batchelor Collection creditline: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206811 PEOPLE ------------------- Batchelor, Ivor Ralph Campbell Sir Batchelor, Honor SUBJECTS ------------------- unicorn stag bird eagle stork vase unicorn stag bird eagle stork vase TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 6 dimension: Length units: cm value: 7.1 CITATIONS -------- The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800 ---