Delftware cistern with a landscape

An image of Delftware. Cistern. Unknown Delft factory, Holland. The gadroons are decorated with Chinese-style flowers and symmetrical scrolls of two alternating designs. The convex area is painted with a continuous European landscape with buildings and sponged trees and bushes, amongst which are several men, one of them on a horse, and another smoking a pipe. To one side is a garden with a balustrade and a fountain with dolphins, round which stand four putti. Pale buff earthenware thrown, with applied moulded gadrooning, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, circa 1700. Baroque.

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Delftware. Cistern. Unknown Delft factory, Holland. The gadroons are decorated with Chinese-style flowers and symmetrical scrolls of two alternating designs. The convex area is painted with a continuous European landscape with buildings and sponged trees and bushes, amongst which are several men, one of them on a horse, and another smoking a pipe. To one side is a garden with a balustrade and a fountain with dolphins, round which stand four putti. Pale buff earthenware thrown, with applied moulded gadrooning, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, circa 1700. Baroque.

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Accession Number: C.2485 & A-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 689 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 641.60kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 20/1
Captured: 2008:08:29 23:11:21

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18th Century Baroque blue blue and white building Chinese Style cistern Delftware domed domes Dutch earthenware Fitz_AA gadroons glazed landscape lidded Orientalism tin-glazed

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