English Deltware plate with a cockerel

An image of Tin-glazed Earthenware / Plate. Vauxhall Pottery. The well is decorated with a cockerel, a potted plant beside a basket, and a branching floral spray, enclosed by a narrow blue circle. The rim is decorated with eight oval panels, each containing a floral spray, reserved in a blue ground. Buff earthenware, moulded, covered with greyish tin-glaze, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours; three peg marks on the back of the rim, diameter, whole, 19.5, cm, circa 1725-1735. London.

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Tin-glazed Earthenware / Plate. Vauxhall Pottery. The well is decorated with a cockerel, a potted plant beside a basket, and a branching floral spray, enclosed by a narrow blue circle. The rim is decorated with eight oval panels, each containing a floral spray, reserved in a blue ground. Buff earthenware, moulded, covered with greyish tin-glaze, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours; three peg marks on the back of the rim, diameter, whole, 19.5, cm, circa 1725-1735. London.

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Accession Number: C.1472-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 907 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 747.93kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2012:06:18 14:24:46

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18th Century birds cock cockerel cockerell Delftware earthenware English English Delftware Fitz_AA floral flowers Georgian glazed medallions moulded plate pottery rooster spray tin-glazed Vauxhall Pottery

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