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So Spode Blue Italian pottery, the shepherd? In the centre of the picture, is he reaching out to save the girl picking a plant in the river?
Or is it as I think, that he’s just given her a wallop and she’s about to go swimming.
I’ve always thought it looked strange, but then the whole picture is more than a bit stylised, the lady sat on the right, it looks as though she’s in a cave?
All most odd. Ian

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Bloody Philistines.

The action of the painting is the man. His hand is horizontal trying to save her.

If he were pushing her in it would be vertical.

The lady Googling is the new Beau of his life and indifferent. His former lover has tried/is trying to kill herself.

He is upset because his former beau has just thrown herself to commit suicide
 
RogerS said:
Bloody Philistines.

The action of the painting is the man. His hand is horizontal trying to save her.

If he were pushing her in it would be vertical.

The lady Googling is the new Beau of his life and indifferent. His former lover has tried/is trying to kill herself.

He is upset because his former beau has just thrown herself to commit suicide
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Phillistine moi? Definitely, is it really that Roger? I mean is it from a play or something?
 
I've no idea what's going on, but apparently (I just Googled it) the design is based loosely on a Claude Lorrain pastoral landscape painting of 1638. And the border derives from an Imari Oriental border. They combine interest in the Grand Tour a couple of hundred years ago with interest in the orient.

The nearest Lorrain I can find is below, and the dish is Japanese Imari. So I guess the image is just a generalised reference to an idealised classical world seen through nature and, given the medium, necessarily a clumsy reference to the genre. So there's probably little point trying to figure out what's going on! But it was clearly excellent business for Spode, apparently it's still being produced.


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Well done Chris, I've looked and not found that, still the same guy with his hand out but this time it's a musket he's holding, and the artist arrived too late to see him back handing the girl into the river.
You see, I'm determined that it's a murder scene!
 
First female is gathering water plants.
Fella is serenading her.
Second female is either in a cave (grotto?) or is about to be wiped off the planet by a tsunami.
There are a few animals scattered around to create a bucolic atmosphere.
Typical cryptic conglomeration of images, brought about by the fact these subjects are the only ones the artist is good at.
Pseuds then rush in to create 'a movement', explaining to.the plebs the artistic significance of the two sheep . Warhol, years later, was seen to hijack the 'critical'(??) commentary by providing it himself.
 
The woman by the river looks to be an "add on", the line of the river bank is visible through her dress.I think that they combined two transfers to get a little more "interest" into the scene. if she is an "add on" then she might not be in quite the same place on each plate. There might be "Friday" afternoon plates where she is missing entirely, or where only her feet are visible sticking out of the water. Could be like the stamps without a queens head.You'd have to get an awful lot of plates to know, could get very spendy.
 
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mwinfrance said:
The woman by the river looks to be an "add on", the line of the river bank is visible through her dress.I think that they combined two transfers to get a little more "interest" into the scene. if she is an "add on" then she might not be in quite the same place on each plate. There might be "Friday" afternoon plates where she is missing entirely, or where only her feet are visible sticking out of the water. Could be like the stamps without a queens head.You'd have to get an awful lot of plates to know, could get very spendy.
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Haha, an awful lot of plates lol, if you knew my Pam whose middle name should have been Blue and White, a lot of plates is the natural state of things.
 
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