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Tag: HW0619

Staffordshire Plate, c1780

This creamware plate was made in about 1780, and shows a laughing dentist extracting a tooth from his hapless patient. The design is based on a caricature produced by Tim Bobbin, first published in a book entitled Human Passions Delineated. Pain and pleasure If you take a closer look, you can see that the dentist… Continue reading Staffordshire Plate, c1780

Published 26 April 2020
Categorised as Cecilia Kendall, Collections, Decorative Art Tagged HW0619

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