Description:
English delft circular plate decorated in Fazackerly colors of green, yellow, purple, and orange-red. The plate has an edge-to-edge scene of a three-story house outlined in purple with two corner towers, nine windows, and a 'Y' shape running up the right side; on the left, a low building with three arches over three red circles marking the entrances and a folly; large yellow haystack with a ladder leaning against it on the right; running fence; green and yellow trees and foliage, rocks; and a red and yellow figure fishing from a punt in the foreground. There are two flocks of tiny birds flying overhead on the rim. Typical Liverpool features include the edge-to-edge horizontal landscape with its riverside scene, house windows divided by vertical lines, the flue-like shape along the side of the house, the trees shaped like layered bolsters, and the fine, regular slightly-bluish glaze. Lipski and Archer's "Dated English Delftware" show several punch bowls decorated with the same scene dated 1754; and shards have been found in Liverpool at the pottery sites (described by E. F. Garner as 'House and Haystack' type), and excavated at Colonial Williamsburg.
Tags:
fishing Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Fishing Link to share this object record:
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