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Description:
English delft circular punch bowl with blue and purple decoration. The outside has a chinoiserie landscape scene with a man walking with a stick, bracket-roofed buildings, running fence, and trees, with a smaller building and hill shapes on the opposite side. The well has a scene of a building and tree in the center, with a scratched-blue band around the inside rim edge. The bowl is supported on an applied foot ring. The glaze, decoration, and shape is typical of London production.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+91.092

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