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Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels with a Chinese scene known as The Boy with a Butterfly. Pattern no. 421
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, moulded (join line clearly visible at the front), glazed, and painted in two shades of blue, two shades of green, dark pink, flesh pink, dark puce, red, and black enamels. Of silver-shape with a loop handle. The exterior is decorated with a continuous Chinese scene: two fuzzy black bushes behind a red fence; a woman wearing green and puce clothing, standing holding a sceptre; a black bush and a rock beside a flowering tree; a boy dressed in green and dark puce who is holding up his arms towards a butterfly; two black bushes flanking a flowering tree; a standing man dressed in blue; and a black bush beside a red fence. The ground is indicated by horizontal red strokes. Round the outside of the rim there are two narrow red lines under which are four inverted hearts with a circle below each. On the inside edge of the rim there is a puce band, and down the back of the handle, graduated dots, a fan-shaped flower, and a long vertical stroke terminating in an arrowhead. Pattern 421
History note: Unknown before donor
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Height: 10.7 cm
Height: 4 3/16 in
Width: 11.6 cm
Width: 4½ in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1800
-
1805
Decoration composed of enamel ( two shades of blue, two shades of green, dark pink, flesh pink, dark puce, red, and black)
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Inscription present: has small v or arrow and dot above
Accession number: C.23-2010
Primary reference Number: 176726
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: IV.B.2
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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