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Plate, buff coloured earthenware, circular shape with small inset base, curving sides and spreading rim; covered all over with a blue tinged tin-glaze, the upperside of the plate painted in blue with to the centre of the well a male figure clad in eighteenth century costume and seated in a chair, smoking a long-stemmed pipe, a Chinese-style border to the rim of foliate motifs on a deep blue ground issuing narrow scrolling lines which spread down the sides of the well, a brown edge to the rim, the underside of the plate decorated with blue dashes and circles.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34762
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 1734 ca
Acquisition
Purchase, 1903
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.6
diam
(cm): 21.7
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
In store
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