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Plate, dark buff coloured earthenware, circular shape with inset base within a flattened-off foot-rim, curving sides and spreading rim; covered all over with a blue-tinged tin-glaze, this then painted in blue with to the centre of the well a garden-like scene showing a building, a fence and trees, over the scene hovers a small hot-air balloon painted in green and brown, the scene enclosed within two circular blue bands, the rim painted with floral swags and sprigs in blue, a feathered blue edge to the outer rim.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34773
Creation/Production
Morgan, Thomas & Abigail Griffith
Acquisition
Purchase, 1904
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3
diam
(cm): 22.8
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 9
Techniques
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
In-glaze colours
Decoration
Applied Art
Tin-glazed
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Material
Tin-glazed earthenware
Location
On Display
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