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Dish, buff coloured earthenware, circular shape, standing on a straight-sided foot-rim, double curve profile with curving sides and spreading rim; covered all over with a slightly blue tinged white tin-glaze, the upperside of the plate crudely painted in polychrome enamels with to the centre of the well a parrot-like bird perched on a spreading Chinese-style tree, to the rim a red lattice-work pattern alternating with reserves containing an elongated brown arch and a twisted blue line.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34759
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 1730-1740 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 31/12/1975
Given by Mrs B. M. Lugg
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.5
diam
(cm): 35
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 13
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
tin-glazed
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
tin-glazed earthenware
enamel
Location
In store
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