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Description: | Shaped plate with octagonal well, no footring, and broad rim moulded with eight scallop shells alternating with eight oval bosses. Decorated with a bluish-white tin-glaze, painted in cobalt blue and yellow with a ploughing scene. Farmer to right, in blue with yellow belt and shoes, pushing yellow and blue plough pulled by two oxen to left, with yellow horns and harness. A man stands immediately behind the oxen with a whip, a scroll issuing from his mouth inscribed 'STAR', the end wrapped around a comet trailing through the sky. Inscription 'I G' to right of comet with flourish below, date '1688' inscribed beneath plough, also with a flourish. Moulded rim picked out in dark blue, light blue and yellow, with dark blue scalloped rim. Six long stilt marks scattered irregularly on base.
Plate commemorating Halley's Comet
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
Material: thrown
Material: tin-glazed
Material: painted in-glaze
Material: cobalt blue
plate & Halley's Comet made in Brislington, Bristol, England, Britain, Europe, 1688, (1923.248). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2473 | Go to resource |
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