Current Location: In storage
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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
Notes
History note: Unknown before donor
Legal notes
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Measurements and weight
Height: 10.7 cm
Height: 4 3/16 in
Width: 11.6 cm
Width: 4½ in
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2009)
by
Keynes, W. M., Dr.
Dating
19th Century, Early
George III
Circa
1800
-
1805
School or Style
Chinese
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( two shades of blue, two shades of green, dark pink, flesh pink, dark puce, red, and black)
Materials used in production
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Moulding
Lead-glazing
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: has small v or arrow and dot above
- Text: 421
- Location: On base at spout end
- Method of creation: Painted in red enamel
- Type: Pattern number
- Text: IV.B.2
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in blue ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.23-2010
Primary reference Number: 176726
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: IV.B.2
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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
