English Delftware dish with a Chinaman seated in a garden

An image of English Delftware. Dish. Unidentified Bristol or Liverpool pottery. Painted in polychrome with a Chinaman seated in a garden beside a fence, and flowers with birds flying overhead. Circular with a sloping rim, deep curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footring. (Archer's Shape E) The front is decorated with a Chinaman in a garden. He is seated facing to left beside a fence with flowering plants on either side and in the foreground. Three groups of schematic birds fly overhead. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white and painted in pale blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. Height, whole, 5, cm, diameter, whole, 33.2, cm, circa 1750. Chinoiserie. Oriental. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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English Delftware. Dish. Unidentified Bristol or Liverpool pottery. Painted in polychrome with a Chinaman seated in a garden beside a fence, and flowers with birds flying overhead. Circular with a sloping rim, deep curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footring. (Archer's Shape E) The front is decorated with a Chinaman in a garden. He is seated facing to left beside a fence with flowering plants on either side and in the foreground. Three groups of schematic birds fly overhead. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white and painted in pale blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. Height, whole, 5, cm, diameter, whole, 33.2, cm, circa 1750. Chinoiserie. Oriental. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.52-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 936 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 120.67kB
Exposure time: 1/250
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor Bristol Pottery Chinaman Chinese Style Chinoiserie circular Delftware dinnerware dish earthenware English English Delftware Fitz_AA floral flowers gardens Georgian glazed Liverpool Pottery male Oriental Style Orientalism pottery seated service ware serving piece sitting tableware tin-glazed

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