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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, glazed, and gilded. Pattern no. 198
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in gold. The circular cup has deep, sides with twenty-seven vertical ribs, a lightly scalloped rim, and a loop handle, and stands on a footring. The saucer has a lightly scalloped edge, deep curved sides, and stands on a footging. The cup is decorated with a central stylized floral spray, and a border below the rim, comprising a continuous stem of stylized foliage, a horizontal band, and alternating pairs and single motifs made up of three dots with a narrow trefoil or fleur-de-lysabove. On the exterior there is a horizontal band below the rim, and another round the footring. The saucer is decorated en suite, but has no decoration on the exterior. Pattern no. 198.
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1787
CE
-
Circa
1792
CE
Cups with twenty-seven vertical ribs are rarer than those with twenty-eight
Decoration
composed of
gold
Saucer
Diameter 13.5 cm
Height 3 cm
Cup
Diameter 6.9 cm
Height 7 cm
Width 9.1 cm
presumed lead-glaze; exept on footrings
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in gold
Glazing
Inscription present: circular white paper stick on label
Accession number: C.6 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 176637
Old object number: I.D.1
Entry form number: 1027
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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