English Delftware punch bowl and cover

An image of English Delftware. Punch bowl with three-part cover. Liverpool Factory. The bowl itself rests on a high domed foot and is painted round the outside with a Chinese landscape, with pavilions on rocks, trees and flying birds, below a border of formal foliage; a similar landscape on the foot. Inside, the arms of Liverpool with the motto 'DEUS.NOBIS.HAEC.OTIA.FECIT'; symmetrical scroll ornaments round the side. The lower part of the lid is domed and painted with similar Chinese landscapes below a panelled border; it has in the middle of it a deep depression forming a small bowl which is covered by the second lid; this supports a third small receptacle, also covered by means of the uppermost lid which ends in a bulbous knob (whole lid is a replacement). Both upper lids are painted with Chinese landscapes; the lower one of them is inscribed inside: 'THOMAS BOOTLE ESQUIRE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR LIVERPOOLE 1724'. Earthenware, thrown in parts, tin-glazed and painted in cobalt blue, height, whole, 59 cm, diameter, bowl, 35.5 cm, dated 1724. Oriental Style.

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English Delftware. Punch bowl with three-part cover. Liverpool Factory. The bowl itself rests on a high domed foot and is painted round the outside with a Chinese landscape, with pavilions on rocks, trees and flying birds, below a border of formal foliage; a similar landscape on the foot. Inside, the arms of Liverpool with the motto 'DEUS.NOBIS.HAEC.OTIA.FECIT'; symmetrical scroll ornaments round the side. The lower part of the lid is domed and painted with similar Chinese landscapes below a panelled border; it has in the middle of it a deep depression forming a small bowl which is covered by the second lid; this supports a third small receptacle, also covered by means of the uppermost lid which ends in a bulbous knob (whole lid is a replacement). Both upper lids are painted with Chinese landscapes; the lower one of them is inscribed inside: 'THOMAS BOOTLE ESQUIRE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR LIVERPOOLE 1724'. Earthenware, thrown in parts, tin-glazed and painted in cobalt blue, height, whole, 59 cm, diameter, bowl, 35.5 cm, dated 1724. Oriental Style.

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Accession Number: C.1716 & A-C-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 529.54kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2053:01:16 10:03:14

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18th Century birds blue blue and white bowl Chinoiserie cobalt cover dated Delftware domed domes drinking vessel earthenware English Delftware Fitz_AA glazed landscape lidded Liverpool Pottery Oriental Style Orientalism painted pavilion pottery punch bowl tin-glazed vessel

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