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Plate, buff coloured earthenware, circular shape with inset base, curving sides and spreading rim; covered all over with a white tin-glaze which is very pitted underneath, this then painted in blue with to the centre of the well a Chinese-style design of a dog-like animal standing on a square mat over three large leaves with to one side a vase issuing spreading flowers and foliage, the sides of the well and the rim covered with a mottled pale blue ground against which are four large and four small ornamental reserves, the larger reserves painted with urns, the smaller ones with stylized flower heads, around the underside of the plate a band of alternating circles and dashes, the glaze worn off around the rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34879
Creation/Production
Bristol, Redcliffe
Date: 18th century
Acquisition
Gift, 1903
Given by Robert Drane
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3
diam
(cm): 22.5
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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