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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels with Chinese figures including a boy with a butterfly. Pattern 421.
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain (cup probably bone china), painted in two shads of blue, two shades of pale green, green, pink, flesh pink, dark puce, red, brown, and black enamels. Bute shape cup with oval ring handle. Circular saucer with curved sides, standing on a footring. The interior of the cup is decorated at the bottom with a row of red grasses, and round the rim with two narrow red lines under which are four inverted hearts with a circle below. The exterior is decorated with a continuous Chinese scene: two fuzzy black bushes behind a red fence; a woman wearing green and puce clothing, stands holding a sceptre; a spiky black bush and a flowering tree; a boy dressed in green and dark puce who is trying to catch a butterfly; two black bushes flanking a flowering tree; a standing man dressed in blue, and another black bush. The ground is indicated by horizontal red strokes. On the back of the handle in puce are five dots, a stylized leaf, a vertical stroke, and at the lower end two leaves. The saucer is decorated inside with a Chinese scene with spiky black rocks, a flowering shrub and flowering tree; a boy holding up arms to a butterfly, and a man and woman standing side by side, dressed similarly to those on the cup. The border is similar to that on the cup with six heart motifs. Pattern 421.
History note: Unknown before testator
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1800
-
1805
This is possibly a marriage with cup later than the saucer, s it is a creamier colour and light in weight
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, dark pink, flesh pink, dark puce, red, brown, and black enamels)
Cup
composed of
bone china
( probably)
Diameter 8.5 cm
Diameter 3 ⅜ in
Height 6 cm
Height 2 ⅜ in
Width 10.5 cm
Width 4 ⅛ in
Saucer
composed of
hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Diameter 14.3 cm
Diameter 5½ in
Height 3 cm
Height 1 3/16 in
presumed lead-glaze Lead-glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: small circular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.21 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 176720
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: I.I.1
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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