Tile
1750-1780 (made)
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Decoration: landscape with a male figure, sitting oon a riverbank fishing, within octagonal boarder decorated with leaf scrolls, Manganese-purple. Body: Buff, fine-grained. Surface: Flat.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Delftware tile, male figure fishing in a landscape, Liverpool, 1750-80. |
| Physical description | Decoration: landscape with a male figure, sitting oon a riverbank fishing, within octagonal boarder decorated with leaf scrolls, Manganese-purple. Body: Buff, fine-grained. Surface: Flat. |
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| Object history | This tile was purchased in November 1892, when the South Kensington Museum bought more than 500 tiles of different types from Mrs Elizabeth Edkins of 12 Charlotte Street, Bristol, for £125.0s.0d Inventory nrs 920 to 1435-1892 |
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| Other number | N.152 - <U>Delftware</U> (1997) cat. no. |
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| Accession number | 934-1892 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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