English Delftware salt

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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

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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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