English Delftware tile with houses and a tower

An image of English Delftware. Tile. Unidentified Liverpool pottery. Within an octagonal reserve, houses and a tower by the shore, with figures on the left; 'cherub' border. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white on the upper surface and painted in blue, height, whole, 13 cm, width, whole, 13 cm, depth, whole, 0.7 cm, circa 1750-1775. Rococo.

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English Delftware. Tile. Unidentified Liverpool pottery. Within an octagonal reserve, houses and a tower by the shore, with figures on the left; 'cherub' border. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white on the upper surface and painted in blue, height, whole, 13 cm, width, whole, 13 cm, depth, whole, 0.7 cm, circa 1750-1775. Rococo.

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Accession Number: C.2801B-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 993 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Filesize: 572.83kB
Captured: 2010:09:29 12:28:52

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18th Century architectural architecture blue blue and white cherubs Delftware earthenware English English Delftware Fitz_AA glazed houses Liverpool Pottery putti putto Roccoco Rococo square tiles tin-glazed tower

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