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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain transfer-printed underglaze blue with ‘Emerging Boats’ or ‘Two Ducks’ pattern.
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transfer-printed underglaze in blue. Bute shape cup with ring handle. The cup is decorated with a continuous Chinese landscape known as 'Emerging Boats, or Two Ducks pattern : from right to left, a group of buildings, a tree, a trellis fence, a river or lake with two small boats, two ducks in the foreground, and emerging from behind the fence, a man in a boat travelling to the left towards a pagoda on the opposite bank; emerging from behind it is another man fishing from a boat, and in the middle, a house and tree on an island and in the distance two mountains.There is a horizontal gold band below the scene and on the rim. Inside the cup there is a border of trellis pattern, and flower heads within C scrolls. Down the back of the handle there is a vertical gold line.
History note: Unknown before testator
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Height: 5.7 cm
Width: 10.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1805
CE
-
Circa
1810
CE
This pattern is known as the 'Emerging Boats' or 'Ducks' pattern.
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
( ceramic printing colour)
Cup
Diameter 8.3 cm. cm
Handle
presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Inscription present: circular white paper stick on label
Accession number: C.9-2010
Primary reference Number: 176639
Old object number: I.K.2
Entry form number: 1027
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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