Chinese style tea bowl, New Hall Factory

An image of Tea Bowl/Cup. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The exterior is decorated with a Chinese garden scene. Standing in front of a red fence is man wearing a long yellow gown with a blue collar and puce tie, holding a red sunshade, and a boy wearing yellow trousers, and a blue and puce tunic, who holds a red child's windmill in his left hand, and a flower on a stem in his right. On the left of the man is a flowering plant and to the right of the boy, a flower in a red vase. On the other side of the cup there is a plant growing on a small area of lawn. The bottom of the interior is decorated with a black and green a sprig, and round the rim is a border of puce scallops, a narrow red wavy line, and groups of four blue dots at regular intervals. Pattern no. 20. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, thrown (or possibly jiggered?) painted in enamels, lead-glazed, height, whole, 5 cm, diameter, whole, 8.2 cm, circa 1785-1795. Chinese Style.

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Tea Bowl/Cup. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The exterior is decorated with a Chinese garden scene. Standing in front of a red fence is man wearing a long yellow gown with a blue collar and puce tie, holding a red sunshade, and a boy wearing yellow trousers, and a blue and puce tunic, who holds a red child's windmill in his left hand, and a flower on a stem in his right. On the left of the man is a flowering plant and to the right of the boy, a flower in a red vase. On the other side of the cup there is a plant growing on a small area of lawn. The bottom of the interior is decorated with a black and green a sprig, and round the rim is a border of puce scallops, a narrow red wavy line, and groups of four blue dots at regular intervals. Pattern no. 20. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, thrown (or possibly jiggered?) painted in enamels, lead-glazed, height, whole, 5 cm, diameter, whole, 8.2 cm, circa 1785-1795. Chinese Style.

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Accession Number: C.18-2010
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 943 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 88.78kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:08:21 15:15:41

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18th Century bowl ceramics Chinese Style cup drinking vessel enamel enamelled English Fitz_AA Georgian glazed hard-paste porcelain lead-glazed New Hall Porcelain Factory Orientalism painted polychrome porcelain scenes service ware serving piece Staffordshire Pottery studio ceramics tableware taking tea tea bowl tea cup teabowl teacup teaware thrown vessel white

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