English Delftware plate with a parrot and birds

An image of English Delftware. Plate. Lambeth Pottery, probably. The middle is decorated with flowering plants, a parrot perching in a tree, and flying insects; on there are three flying birds alternating with three stylized floral sprays. Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, painted in high-temperature colour, diameter 21.9 cm, circa 1750-1775.

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English Delftware. Plate. Lambeth Pottery, probably. The middle is decorated with flowering plants, a parrot perching in a tree, and flying insects; on there are three flying birds alternating with three stylized floral sprays. Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, painted in high-temperature colour, diameter 21.9 cm, circa 1750-1775.

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Accession Number: C.1480-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 919 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 699.97kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2053:01:23 08:44:53

Key words

18th Century birds Delftware earthenware English English Delftware Fitz_AA floral flying Georgian glazed insects macaw moulded Oriental Style Orientalism parrots perched plate pottery spray tin-glazed

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