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Description:
English delft circular plate with blue and purple decoration. The well is decorated with a chinoiserie landscape scene of a blue and purple house; a tall purple poplar and pine, and smaller 'telegraph pole' trees; large rocks and foliage around the house, and a small island-like clump of foliage in the foreground; and two flocks of flying birds in a "V" formation. The curvature is encircled with a trellis pattern with blue dashes and crosses connected with purple lines; the outer rim is surrounded by a series of blue dots in purple squares. Fragments with the same border pattern were found by Garner in Lambeth and in excavations at Colonial Williamsburg; and the Victoria and Albert Museum has a similar plate dated 1760.

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