Slop bowl: C.26-2010

Maker(s)

Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory

Entities

• Slop bowl
• slop basin

Categories

• Hybrid hard-paste porcelain

Description

Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in black, and painted in polychrome enamels with a Chinese scene known as 'the Window' or 'the Boy at the Window'. Pattern 425

Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transfer-printed onglaze in black, and painted in pale blue, greyish-blue, two shades of green, pink dark puce, apricot, red, and black enamels. Circular with sloping sides, contracting sharply above the footring. The interior is decorated with a black circle enclosing a Chinese figure scene known as 'the Window' or 'the Boy at the Window'. Pattern no. 425. On the left, a young woman stands beside a grey table watched by two boys, and a young man leans out of the window of a house on the right. In the background there is a red fence and a pink and dark puce landscape. Below the rim there is a border comprising oval scroll-edged reserves with an apricot ground and darker apricot splodges, and smaller round scroll-edged reserves containing a plant with a puce flower, separated by areas of pink and dark pink spotted trellis pattern. Round the edge there is a dotted red line between black lines. On the exterior the scene is repeated twice with areas of the three types of border pattern betwen them. Pattern 425.

Notes

History note: Unknown before donor

Legal notes

Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.

Dating

18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early
Circa 1795 - 1810

School or Style

Chinese