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Plate, buff earthenware, covered with a pale-blue-tinged tin-glaze, with some pinkish colouration to underside and three prominent stilt marks, standing on a recessed base, spreading, cushion-moulded sides, forming a central well with steeply sloping sides and a gently sloping wide rim; decorated in underglaze blue, in the centre, with the inscription and date, 'Eliz th Sanders Llanablodwell 1750', within an ornate eight sided cartouche; around the rim, with five oval panels containing Chinese-style symbols of cylinders and waved lines reserved on a diaper work ground; the rim heavily chipped exposing the earthenware body.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34878
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 1750
Acquisition
Purchase, 28/7/1987
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.5
diam
(cm): 22.4
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
tin-glaze
Location
In store
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