Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Factory:
New Hall Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, with Chinese figures including a boy with a butterfly. Pattern no. 421.
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, thrown, glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, green, turquoise, pink, puce, flesh-pink, red, brown, and black enamels. 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 man 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.
Notes
History note: Unknown before testator
Legal notes
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 15.3 cm
Diameter: 6⅛ in
Height: 7.3 cm
Height: 2 ⅞ in
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2009)
by
Keynes, W. M., Dr.
Dating
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early
George III
Circa
1795
-
1805
School or Style
Chinese
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, turquoise, pink, puce, flesh-pink, red, brown, and black)
Materials used in production
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, probably thrown, glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, green, turquoise, pink, puce, flesh-pink, red, brown, and black enamels
Lead-glazing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 421
- Location: On base near footring
- Method of creation: Painted in red enamel
- Type: Pattern number
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
- Text: I.H.2
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in turquoise ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.20-2010
Primary reference Number: 176719
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: I.H.2
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
