English Delftware plate with a rural scene

An image of English Delftware. Plate. Unidentified Liverpool pottery. Circular with a wide almost flat rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footrim. The front is painted overall with a rural scene. On the left, is a tree growing out of a rock on which leans a man playing a horn, who is watched by a standing shepherd, both wearing broad-brimmed hats, jackets, breeches, stockings and shoes. Further to the right are two ill-defined animals, perhaps a goat or sheep and a cat or fox with a large insect flying above them. The rim is encircled by a red-brown band. There is one large and one small peg mark on the reverse of the rim. Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue and red-brown. Height, whole, 2.3 cm, diameter, whole, 21.7 cm, circa 1750-1760. Rococo. Production Note: Although the figures are European, the asymmetrical design was strongly influenced by Oriental porcelain, as was the red-brown rim, often a feature of Chinese dishes and plates. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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English Delftware. Plate. Unidentified Liverpool pottery. Circular with a wide almost flat rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footrim. The front is painted overall with a rural scene. On the left, is a tree growing out of a rock on which leans a man playing a horn, who is watched by a standing shepherd, both wearing broad-brimmed hats, jackets, breeches, stockings and shoes. Further to the right are two ill-defined animals, perhaps a goat or sheep and a cat or fox with a large insect flying above them. The rim is encircled by a red-brown band. There is one large and one small peg mark on the reverse of the rim. Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue and red-brown. Height, whole, 2.3 cm, diameter, whole, 21.7 cm, circa 1750-1760. Rococo. Production Note: Although the figures are European, the asymmetrical design was strongly influenced by Oriental porcelain, as was the red-brown rim, often a feature of Chinese dishes and plates. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.86-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 930 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 153.01kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor animal animals broad rimmed hat circular Delftware Early Rococo earthenware English English Delftware Fitz_AA Georgian glazed hats Liverpool Pottery male man men moulded plate pottery press moulded Rococo rural rustic scenes sheep shepherds tin-glazed wide brimmed hat

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