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English Delftware chamber pot with Chinoiserie decoration

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An image of English Delftware. Chamber Pot. Unidentified Liverpool pottery. Unidentified decorator, decorator, north Staffordshire. Circular with curved sides, and a loop handle on one side. Decorated on the outside with Chinese ladies among flowering plants, with rocks, a fence, and a Chinese style floral border. The inside is decorated with a floral spray. Buff earthenware, thrown with applied handle, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted overglaze in enamels, height, whole, 11 cm, width, whole, 24 cm, circa 1750-1760. Chinoiserie. Famille Rose.

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English Delftware. Chamber Pot. Unidentified Liverpool pottery. Unidentified decorator, decorator, north Staffordshire. Circular with curved sides, and a loop handle on one side. Decorated on the outside with Chinese ladies among flowering plants, with rocks, a fence, and a Chinese style floral border. The inside is decorated with a floral spray. Buff earthenware, thrown with applied handle, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted overglaze in enamels, height, whole, 11 cm, width, whole, 24 cm, circa 1750-1760. Chinoiserie. Famille Rose.

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  • Accession Number: C.1728-1928
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/39.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 633 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 142.71kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 39/1

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18th Century Artist/Maker Artistic Movement Chinese Style Chinoiserie Date Delftware Department English English Delftware Fitz_AA Georgian Liverpool Pottery Material Medium Object Type Orientalism Other Keywords Staffordshire Pottery Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_PCtd chamber pot earthenware enamel enamelled famille rose fence floral flowers glazed handle handled ladies lady on-glazed overglaze painted pot pottery thrown tin-glazed

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