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English Delftware plate with ladies strolling in a landscape

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An image of English Delftware. Plate. Unidentified Bristol or London pottery. Painted in blue with two ladies strolling in a landscape. Circular with a wide sloping rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footrim, (Archer's Shape). The front is decorated with two ladies wearing hats and wide skirts strolling in a landscape with trees and on the right a house and a cottage. Overhead there are schematic clouds and birds. There are three peg marks on the back of the rim. Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted and sponged in blue. Height, whole, 2.6 cm, diameter, whole, 22.4 cm, circa 1750-1760. Rococo. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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English Delftware. Plate. Unidentified Bristol or London pottery. Painted in blue with two ladies strolling in a landscape. Circular with a wide sloping rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footrim, (Archer's Shape). The front is decorated with two ladies wearing hats and wide skirts strolling in a landscape with trees and on the right a house and a cottage. Overhead there are schematic clouds and birds. There are three peg marks on the back of the rim. Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted and sponged in blue. Height, whole, 2.6 cm, diameter, whole, 22.4 cm, circa 1750-1760. Rococo. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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  • Accession Number: C.56-2015
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 915 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 131.27kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 22/1

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18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor blue and white Bristol Pottery building buildings circular Delftware Early Rococo earthenware English English Delftware female Fitz_AA Georgian glazed houses ladies lady landscape London Pottery moulded on foot plate pottery press moulded Rococo sponged sponging strolling tin-glazed walkers walking woman women

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