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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels with a Chinese figure scene known as 'the Window', or 'the Boy at the Window'. Pattern 425.
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, moulded, with applied handle, glazed, transfer-printed in black, and painted in blue, green, pink, dark puce, pale apricot, red, and black enamels. London shape. On each side there is a Chinese figure scene known as 'the Window' or 'the Boy at the Window' flanked by smaller scroll-edged reserves containing red plants on an apricot ground, a pink with green leaves, or a pink and dark puce diaper pattern. Below the rim there is a narrow red dotted line between black lines. Inside the rim there is a dark puce band, and on the outside of the handle there are puce graduated dots, a fan-shaped flower with a spot and a vertical stroke below.
History note: Unknown before testator
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Height: 11 cm
Height: 4⅜ in
Width: 14 cm
Width: 5½ in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
19th Century, Early
George III
Circa
1800
-
1810
Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( black) enamel ( blue, green, pale apricot, pink dark puce, red, and black)
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Hybrid hard-paste moulded iwith applied handle, glazed, transfer-printed in black, and painted in blue, green, pink, dark puce, pale apricot, red, and black enamels.
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.25-2010
Primary reference Number: 176728
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: IV.B.1
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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