Plate Item Number: Cg305 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Circular earthenware plate with ringed base and everted rim. In the well centre is a yellow bird upon a flowering branch above a low fence. Design extends onto the rim, with an insect flying on upper and grass on lower rim. Blue, green, yellow, purple-brown and red on light blue.
Cultural Context
decorative
Specific Techniques
tin-glazed
Iconographic Meaning
This plate is a good example of the Fazackerley colours exclusive to Liverpool. They owe their name to a pair of mugs painted with a specific palette of colours—blue, yellow, orange, purple, and green—that were inscribed with the initials of Thomas and Catherine Fazackerley. The mugs stayed in the family until they were sold in 1854 to the collector Joseph Mayer (who described them in his 1855 book History of the Art of Pottery in Liverpool), who eventually gave them to the Liverpool museum, which he founded. Unfortunately, they were destroyed during World War II.
Item History
- Made in United Kingdom and Liverpool, England during 1760
- Owned by F. H. Garner
- Owned by Walter C. Koerner before December 2, 1988
- Received from Walter C. Koerner (Donor) on December 2, 1988
What
Who
- Culture
- English
- Previous Owner
- F. H. Garner and Walter C. Koerner
- Received from
- Walter C. Koerner (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- United Kingdom and Liverpool, England
When
- Creation Date
- during 1760
- Ownership Date
- before December 2, 1988
- Acquisition Date
- on December 2, 1988
Other
- Item Classes
- ceramics; earthenware; tin-glaze
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 1417/0352