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Plate, pale buff coloured earthenware, circular shape with inset base, curving sides and spreading rim; covered all over with a blue tinged white tin-glaze, this then painted in blue with to the centre of the well a Chinese-style design of rocks and spreading branches of foliage with two birds perched amongst them, to the rim three spreading sprays of foliage with parchment scrolls laid across them, to the outer rim a border of alternating panels of a lattice-work pattern and of lunettes, three stylized sprays of folaige around the underside of the plate.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34869
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 1770-1780
Acquisition
Purchase, 1902
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.7
diam
(cm): 21.8
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
in-glaze colours
decoration
Applied Art
tin-glazed
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
tin-glazed earthenware
Location
Gallery 07A South
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