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Copyright/attribution: ©Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives
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Circular plate with shaped edge; sloping, slightly concave flange lightly fluted. Clear glaze over white body.
Printed outline in dark purple, painted in underglaze blue and overpainted with coloured enamels - pale and dark orange-red, tan, yellow 'gilding' - with chinoiserie design: in well, within ogee-scalloped circle, two pagodas on large hollow rock, two further pagodas behind rock, all between flowering trees, 'wave' ground; on flange, border design of four shaped cartouches each containing a large flower and two buds, separated by four key-pattern panels\with flower pendant; tan rim edge.