Description:
English delft punch bowl decorated in blue, green, red, and yellow. The exterior has a blue band around the rim over a parrot outlined in red, with a red head turned to the rear, yellow eye, green body, blue wing, and yellow flowing tail; and perched on a scrolling red sprig with green and blue leaves and a red and yellow flower. The parrot is flanked by red and yellow flying insects, a stylized hill, red scrolling lines, and a large, scrolling floral spray covering most of the side opposite the parrot. The interior rim has a band of blue scratch decoration and a scrolling blue floral spray in the well. The bowl has an applied foot ring. This was probably a very popular pattern in its day given the number of plates that have survived. The London attribution is based on fragments with this design found by Frank Garner during his excavations at the Lambeth High Street Pottery site. The treatment of the leaves is similar to those on a plate dated 1773.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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