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Staffordshire stoneware pew group

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An image of Stoneware / Figure Group. Pew Group. Unknown. Staffordshire factory. White salt-glazed stoneware with details in brown, height, whole, 16.5 cm, width, whole, 16.5 cm, circa 1740-1750. George II. Pew group of a woman holding a dog, and a man playing a musical instrument, both seated on a high-backed settle. Hand-modelled.

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Stoneware / Figure Group. Pew Group. Unknown. Staffordshire factory. White salt-glazed stoneware with details in brown, height, whole, 16.5 cm, width, whole, 16.5 cm, circa 1740-1750. George II. Pew group of a woman holding a dog, and a man playing a musical instrument, both seated on a high-backed settle. Hand-modelled.

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  • Accession Number: C.779-1928
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/16.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
  • Image height: 836 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 524.28kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 16/1
  • Captured: 2013:09:04 15:16:19

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18th Century ceramics clothes clothing costume dogs English fashion female figure figure group Fitz_AA Georgian glazed male music musical instruments musician pews playing an instrument Roccoco Rococo salt-glazed seated settle sitting Staffordshire Pottery stoneware white woman woodwind

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