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English Delftware plate with a parrot and birds

Image attached to C.1480-1928

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

Colours in this image

rgb(193,194,192), rgb(39,43,47), rgb(103,114,124), rgb(84,76,70), rgb(140,126,67), rgb(148,153,154), rgb(135,130,125), rgb(232,232,231), rgb(159,148,122), rgb(66,103,148), rgb(68,116,148)

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