Description:
This decoration has always been taken to be a potter’s kiln billowing smoke, but it is not the traditional bottle kiln shape that you see in Staffordshire. Delftware kilns were traditionally “bread loaf” shaped - not conical. It may well be a glass furnace which used conical-shaped structures to melt the glass batch. Plate, probably Bristol, England, c. 1750. Tin-glazed earthenware (delftware) painted in cobalt blue. Rim to rim decoration, scene of a conical potting kiln? with two structures behind it, kiln is bletching smoke, plant matter to the right and left of kiln, suggestion of birds above and water below. On back of plate are white paper labels for "Alistair Sampson Antiques/ HN/95" and "Mid C18th/ Bristol Delft" Versions of the plate were produced in blue and white, brown and white, and polychrome colors. Excellent condition.
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