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Plate, buff coloured earthenware, circular shape, flat base, spreading sides with shallow well and broad rim; covered all over with a white tin glaze with a slightly pink tinge to it, to one side of the rim spreading down onto the well a design painted in blue consisting of the inscription "C / W M / 1693", enclosed within an elaborate cartouche composed of to either side two dragon supports with a mask of a human face at the bottom, spreading down from this a series of looping festoons with tassels, a coronet above the inscription, the plate cracked several times and repaired, slight plaster restoration to the rim.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34653
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 1693 ca
Acquisition
Purchase, 1903
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.8
diam
(cm): 22.3
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
in-glaze colours
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
tin-glazed earthenware
glaze
Location
In store
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