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Culture:English
Title:plate
Date Made:1750-1765
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: tin-glazed earthenware decorated in cobalt blue
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Liverpool
Measurements:overall: 1 1/8 x 9 1/8 in.; 23.495 cm
Accession Number:  HD 91.174
Credit Line:Museum Collections Fund
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
English delft circular plate with blue decoration. The plate is decorated with an edge-to-edge chinoiserie garden scene with a six-part running fence, hollow rocks, two flowers, and three tall branching bamboos. The stylized hollow rocks with flowers growing on them, which along with the tall bamboo is a common Liverpool decoration, are 'tufa', a volcanic rock found in Chinese decorations.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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