Cup and saucer with strawberries, New Hall Factory

An image of Cup and saucer. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. The circular saucer has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The cup is decorated on the outside at the top with a border of pairs of two-tone purplish-brown strawberries alternating with a single leaf, on an undulating gold stem with smaller gold leaves branching off it. Below there a horizontal gold band, with a very narrow one below, and there iare further bands round the rim and base. The back of the handle is decorated with a few gold tiny dots and four stylized gold trefoil leaves.The saucer has one purplish-brown strawberry and a leaf on a gold stem in the centre, and a similar border around the edge. Pattern no. 285. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, thrown (?), glazed, painted overglaze in purplish-brown enamel, and gilded. Height, cup, 6.5 cm, diameter, cup, 6.3 cm, width, cup, 8.4 cm, height, saucer, 3.4 cm, diameter, sucer, 13 cm, circa 1797-1803.

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Cup and saucer. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. The circular saucer has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The cup is decorated on the outside at the top with a border of pairs of two-tone purplish-brown strawberries alternating with a single leaf, on an undulating gold stem with smaller gold leaves branching off it. Below there a horizontal gold band, with a very narrow one below, and there iare further bands round the rim and base. The back of the handle is decorated with a few gold tiny dots and four stylized gold trefoil leaves.The saucer has one purplish-brown strawberry and a leaf on a gold stem in the centre, and a similar border around the edge. Pattern no. 285. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, thrown (?), glazed, painted overglaze in purplish-brown enamel, and gilded. Height, cup, 6.5 cm, diameter, cup, 6.3 cm, width, cup, 8.4 cm, height, saucer, 3.4 cm, diameter, sucer, 13 cm, circa 1797-1803.

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Accession Number: C.63 & A-2010
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 794 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 456.69kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2013:11:20 15:42:35

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