Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Press-moulded salt-glazed stoneware. Circular with two C-scroll handles on opposing sides.
White salt-glazed stoneware, the lower part thrown and the upper part press-moulded. The lower part is hollow. It stands on a circular base which slopes outwards to create a foot, and then outwards again for about 2.5 cm before rising vertically to the rim. On opposing wides there is a moulded C-scroll handle. The closed top resembles a plate with a sloping rim rim and shallow well. The rim has a relief border design of panels of trellis diaper and basket work separated by scrolls, broken at 12 o’clock by a rectangular aperture to admit the hot water (originally with a cover now missing).
Notes
History note: Bonham's, New Bond Street, London, 8 September 1904, lot purchased for £492.50 by the donor, Mrs Margaret H. Cook
Legal notes
Given by Mrs Margaret Cook
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 16.3 cm
Height: 6 cm
Width: 26.4 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(2019-04-29)
by
Cook, Margaret H., Mrs
Dating
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
1765
CE
Note
This type of borders occurs on plates and dishes with references to the King of Prussia and therefore probably made during the Seven Years War, c. 1757-62. The earliest known invoice for a dinner service, probably of salt-glazed stoneware is in 175 , in the archives of the 4th Duke of Bedford, at Woburn.
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Top
Materials used in production
Stoneware
Techniques used in production
Salt-glazing
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
- Text: (red ink) ‘365.’ and (blue ink) ‘8.9.04 from Bonhams Auction/House, New Bond St., London. 9”/£400 + £92-50. Very rare saltglaze/c. 1750/60. Collected 23.9.04./from a Staffs pottery./Good crisp moulding.’
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in red and blue ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.3-2019
Primary reference Number: 227178
Entry form number: 1382
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 28 May 2019
Updated: Tuesday 26 November 2019
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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