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English Delftware salt

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An image of English Delftware. Salt. Unidentified London or Brislington pottery. Circular with a conical foot supporting a circular bowl with a sloping rim. Three scrolls rise from the rim to support a plate. The top of the foot is decorated with stylized floral sprays, and has a narrow blue line above and below them and a wider band at its junction with the bowl. The top has a floral spray in the centre, surrounded by two concentric blue circles, plant motifs on the rim, and blue stripes on the scrolls. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, and red, height, 11.2 cm, circa 1720-1730.

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English Delftware. Salt. Unidentified London or Brislington pottery. Circular with a conical foot supporting a circular bowl with a sloping rim. Three scrolls rise from the rim to support a plate. The top of the foot is decorated with stylized floral sprays, and has a narrow blue line above and below them and a wider band at its junction with the bowl. The top has a floral spray in the centre, surrounded by two concentric blue circles, plant motifs on the rim, and blue stripes on the scrolls. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, and red, height, 11.2 cm, circa 1720-1730.

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  • Accession Number: C.1660-1928
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 858 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 175.85kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2012:05:11 14:19:47

Key words

18th Century Artist/Maker Date Delftware Department English English Delftware Fitz_AA Georgian Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Predominant Colours Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd circular conical earthenware floral glazed painted round salt service ware serving piece spray tableware tin-glazed white

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rgb(190,190,190), rgb(41,79,106), rgb(153,74,34), rgb(115,131,134), rgb(235,235,234), rgb(156,109,77), rgb(150,137,129), rgb(216,229,230), rgb(180,156,131), rgb(199,216,230), rgb(82,173,210)

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