Wedgwood Queen's ware plate with a vignette

An image of Plate. Wedgwood, Josiah (English potter 1730-1795). Made in Josiah Wedgwood's factory at Burslem and printed in Liverpool by Sadler and Green. Circular with wavy edge, narrow sloping rim, shallow curved sides, and flat centre. Decorated in the centre with a vignette showing a man fishing beside a lake, flanked by buildings and trees, and on the rim with six floral sprays. Cream-coloured earthenware (Queen's ware), moulded with featheredge, and printed onglaze in lilac, diameter, whole, 19.4 cm, circa 1765-1770. Rococo.

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Plate. Wedgwood, Josiah (English potter 1730-1795). Made in Josiah Wedgwood's factory at Burslem and printed in Liverpool by Sadler and Green. Circular with wavy edge, narrow sloping rim, shallow curved sides, and flat centre. Decorated in the centre with a vignette showing a man fishing beside a lake, flanked by buildings and trees, and on the rim with six floral sprays. Cream-coloured earthenware (Queen's ware), moulded with featheredge, and printed onglaze in lilac, diameter, whole, 19.4 cm, circa 1765-1770. Rococo.

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Accession Number: C.2-1995
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/39.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 996 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 590.47kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 39/1

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18th Century angler angling cream creamware earthenware English fish fisherman fishing floral Georgian glazed Josiah Wedgwood lead-glazed moulded on-glazed onglaze overglaze plate pottery Queen's ware Roccoco Rococo Sadler and Green spray Staffordshire Pottery vignette Wedgwood Factory

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