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Dish or charger of tin-glazd buff earthenware, standing on a tapered foot rim, cushion-moulded spreading sides, creating a deep central well and a broad, flaring rim; the whole covered with a white tin-glaze and decorated in underglaze blue with, in the centre, a heron-style bird, amongst chinoiserie style foliage and insects within a chain-linked circular band; the rim with triangular motifs infilled with vertical banding, interspersed with simple floral and foliate motifs.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34719
Acquisition
Gift, 1903
Given by Robert Drane
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.6
diam
(cm): 32.9
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 12
Techniques
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
tin-glazed
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
Material
tin-glazed earthenware
Location
In store
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