A Bristol delftware 'Farmyard' plate, circa 1720-50
Painted in very bright yellow, red and dark blue with a peacock standing on slender legs among 'sponged trees' in dark manganese, a single blue line at the rim, 22cm diam
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A closely related example is illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), p.222, fig.14.9. It was Frank Britton's work to categorise the collection by subject matter that led to the term Farmyard becoming a popular name for this series of plates.