English Delftware tile with a bird perching on a tree stump

An image of English Delftware. Tile. Unidentified Liverpool pottery. A bird perching on a tree stump. Buff, fine-grained earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese high-temperature colours. Height, whole, 12.6 cm, width, whole, 12.6 cm, depth, whole, 0.6 cm, circa 1750-1775. Rococo.

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English Delftware. Tile. Unidentified Liverpool pottery. A bird perching on a tree stump. Buff, fine-grained earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese high-temperature colours. Height, whole, 12.6 cm, width, whole, 12.6 cm, depth, whole, 0.6 cm, circa 1750-1775. Rococo.

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Accession Number: PER.C.29-1922
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 1012 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 546.53kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 29/1
Captured: 2008:03:13 23:43:28

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18th Century birds blue Delftware earthenware English Delftware Fitz_AA Georgian glazed Liverpool Pottery perched perching preening Rococo tiles tin-glazed yellow

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