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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transer-printed and painted in enamels with a chinese scene including a boy at a window. Pattern no. 425
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transfer-printed overglaze in black, and painted in greyish blue, blue, green, turquoise, pink, puce, apricot, red, grey, and black enamels. The teabowl has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The circular saucer has curved sides, an almost flat centre, and stands on a footring. The exterior of the cup is is decorated with a Chinese figure scene known as 'the Window' or 'the Boy at the Window'., repeated twice. 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. Between the scenes there is an oval scroll-edged reserves with an apricot ground and darker apricot splodges, with below it two smaller round scroll-edged reserves containing a plant with a puce flower. Above there is an area of pink and dark pink spotted trellis pattern. Below the scenes and round the top there is a narrow horizontal black line. Inside there is a red plant motif at the bottom, and round the rim, a border of joined red arrowheads between narrow horizontal black lines. The saucer has the Chinese scene in the middle surrounded by matching scroll-edged oval and circular motifs and trellis patterns, and a similar border. Pattern 425.
History note: Unknown before donor
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1795
-
1800
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( black)
enamel
( greyish-blue, blue, green, turquoise, pink, puce, apricot, red, and grey)
Saucer
Diameter 13.6 cm
Height 3.5 cm
Tea Bowl
Diameter 8.8 cm
Height 5.1 cm
Bowl
presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.28 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 177295
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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