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Culture:English
Title:tile: basket of flowers
Date Made:1750-1775
Type:Architectural Element; Household Accessory
Materials:ceramic: tin-glazed earthenware decorated in cobalt blue, manganese purple, antimony yellow, and green
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Liverpool
Measurements:overall: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 5/16 in.; 13.0175 x 13.0175 x .7938 cm
Accession Number:  HD 67.002B
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of a set of four delft tiles decorated a basket of flowers in blue, purple, yellow, and green. The center has a large green orangerie-like basket with blue dots in the lattice-work openings (a very unusual basket form) standing on a triangular-shaped green base; the basket is filled with a stylized floral spray in purple, yellow, blue, and green. Each corner has a blue scroll shape topped with three green stylized leaves and bisected at the base with two arched purple lines.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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