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 inside is decorated in the middle with a Chinese boy trying to catch a butterfly with a fence and bushes in the background, and round the rim there are two narrow red lines with below, at intervals, six inverted hearts with a circle below each. On one side of the exterior, is a boy trying to catch a butterfly, and a Chinaman with flowering trees and bushes, and on the other side, a woman holding a sceptre with a fence, a small tree, and bushes behind her. Pattern 421. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, probably thrown, glazed, and painted overglaze in enamels, lead-glazed, height, whole, 7.3 cm, diameter, whole, 15.3 cm, circa 1795-1805. Chinese Style.

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Tea Bowl/Cup. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The inside is decorated in the middle with a Chinese boy trying to catch a butterfly with a fence and bushes in the background, and round the rim there are two narrow red lines with below, at intervals, six inverted hearts with a circle below each. On one side of the exterior, is a boy trying to catch a butterfly, and a Chinaman with flowering trees and bushes, and on the other side, a woman holding a sceptre with a fence, a small tree, and bushes behind her. Pattern 421. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, probably thrown, glazed, and painted overglaze in enamels, lead-glazed, height, whole, 7.3 cm, diameter, whole, 15.3 cm, circa 1795-1805. Chinese Style.

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Accession Number: C.20-2010
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 849 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 80.85kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:08:21 14:39:05

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