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Moon bird
Dish, red earthenware coated in white slip, rounded rectangular shape, its slab top depressed in the centre and overlapping the vertical slightly in-curving sides; painted in the centre with a landscape at night in underglaze colours, predominantly blue, brown, green and black, featuring hills with a crow in fields in the foreground and a bird in flight over the sea visible between them, the moon and a tree on the left reserved in white.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A(L) 1494
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.4
Width
(cm): 34.8
Depth
(cm): 30.4
Height
(in): 2
Width
(in): 13
d(in) frame:12
d(in)
Techniques
slab-built
forming
Applied Art
slip-coated
decoration
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
Location
Front Hall, South Balcony : Case J
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