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English Delftware tile with a bird perching on a tree stump

Image attached to PER.C.29-1922

An image of English Delftware. Tile. Unidentified Liverpool pottery. A bird perching on a tree stump. Buff, fine-grained earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese high-temperature colours. Height, whole, 12.6 cm, width, whole, 12.6 cm, depth, whole, 0.6 cm, circa 1750-1775. Rococo.

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English Delftware. Tile. Unidentified Liverpool pottery. A bird perching on a tree stump. Buff, fine-grained earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese high-temperature colours. Height, whole, 12.6 cm, width, whole, 12.6 cm, depth, whole, 0.6 cm, circa 1750-1775. Rococo.

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  • Accession Number: PER.C.29-1922
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/29.0
  • Focal length: 100
  • Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 1012 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 546.53kB
  • Exposure time: 1/100
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 29/1
  • Captured: 2008:03:13 23:43:28

Key words

18th Century birds blue Delftware earthenware English Delftware Fitz_AA Georgian glazed Liverpool Pottery perched perching preening Rococo tiles tin-glazed yellow

Colours in this image

rgb(10,8,8), rgb(229,226,227), rgb(161,153,100), rgb(130,94,93), rgb(145,153,157), rgb(202,185,127), rgb(103,137,179), rgb(94,114,150), rgb(180,154,140), rgb(182,190,202), rgb(199,185,188)

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