English Delftware plate with a Chinaman in a fenced garden

An image of English Delftware. Plate. Unidentified Liverpool pottery, England. Painted in blue with a Chinaman in a fenced garden, with flowering bamboo behind him. The circular plate has a sloping rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre. (Archer’s shape M but shallower) The well is decorated with a Chinaman seated on a rock and pointing to the viewer’s left with his raised right hand. Behind him there is a tall rock or tree trunk with plants growing from it, and a plant with three flowers projecting from a fence. To the left of the man there is another plant and in the foreground tufts of grass. The scene is surrounded by two narrow concentric circles. On the rim there is a narrow border of lozenge shapes with crosses over them. There are three peg marks on the reverse of the rim. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue. Height, whole, 23 cm, diameter, whole, 17.4 cm, circa 1760. Chinoiserie. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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English Delftware. Plate. Unidentified Liverpool pottery, England. Painted in blue with a Chinaman in a fenced garden, with flowering bamboo behind him. The circular plate has a sloping rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre. (Archer’s shape M but shallower) The well is decorated with a Chinaman seated on a rock and pointing to the viewer’s left with his raised right hand. Behind him there is a tall rock or tree trunk with plants growing from it, and a plant with three flowers projecting from a fence. To the left of the man there is another plant and in the foreground tufts of grass. The scene is surrounded by two narrow concentric circles. On the rim there is a narrow border of lozenge shapes with crosses over them. There are three peg marks on the reverse of the rim. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue. Height, whole, 23 cm, diameter, whole, 17.4 cm, circa 1760. Chinoiserie. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.58-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 904 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 120.36kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1

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18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor bamboo blue and white Chinaman Chinoiserie circular Delftware earthenware English English Delftware fence fenced garden Fitz_AA Georgian glazed Liverpool Pottery plate pottery tin-glazed

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