German earthenware plaque with mounted soldiers

An image of Lead-glazed Earthenware / Plaque. Earthenware, moulded, decorated with slip, and lead-glazed, height, whole, 42 cm, width, whole, 35 cm, circa 1790-1795. Production Place: Germany, Lower Rhein, Sonsbeck. Attributed to Issum on accession, and reattributed to Sonsbeck in the exhibition Peasant Pottery of the Lower Rhine 17th-20th Century.

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Lead-glazed Earthenware / Plaque. Earthenware, moulded, decorated with slip, and lead-glazed, height, whole, 42 cm, width, whole, 35 cm, circa 1790-1795. Production Place: Germany, Lower Rhein, Sonsbeck. Attributed to Issum on accession, and reattributed to Sonsbeck in the exhibition Peasant Pottery of the Lower Rhine 17th-20th Century.

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Accession Number: C.1861-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 904 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 1.24MB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2013:05:03 16:24:19

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18th Century animals earthenware equestrian Fitz_AA German horseback horseman horses lead-glazed military plaque pottery slipware soldiers

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