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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain transfer-printed underglaze in blue with 'Malayan Village' or 'Trench Mortar' pattern, and gilt
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transfer-printed and painted underglaze in blue, and gilt. Circular teabowl with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. Decorated on the ouside with a continuous Chinese landscape known as 'Malayan Village' or 'Trench Mortar' pattern, and with a gold band round the rim. On the inside there is a central cloud (?) and below the rim, a border of scale and diaper pattern, C-scrolls, leaves, and half flowers. The circular saucer has curved sides and stands on a footring. It is decorated en suite with the pattern in the middle surrounded by the border, and on the outside of the ede with a pale yellowish brown band.
History note: Unknown before donor, W.M. Keynes, MD, FRCS (1924-2009), Cambridge
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
Circa 1790 CE - 1795 CE
The cup and saucer may not have been together initially as the rim of the saucer is not gilded. See notes. The pattern is transfer-printed and the water painted in by hand
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
( ceramic printing pigment)
gold
Saucer
Diameter 12.8 cm
Height 3.5 cm
Cup
Diameter 8.3 cm
Height 5 cm cm
presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.11 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 176664
Old object number: I K 5
Old object number: I K 1
Entry form number: 1027
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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