Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Factory:
New Hall Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transfer-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 greyish-black, and painted in two shades of blue, green, turquoise, pink, puce, apricot, red, and grey enamels; the glaze inside the footring does not reach the edge on the handle side Circular with deep almost straight sides, curving inwards at the bottom, standing on a footring; loop handle. The exterior is decorated with 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. The area on either side of the handle is decorated with an oval scroll-edged reserve with an apricot ground and darker apricot splodges, and two smaller round scroll-edged reserves containing a plant with a puce flower. Above and between the two small panels there are aeas of pink and dark pink spotted trellis pattern. Inside round the rim is a border of joined red arrowheads between horizontal black lines.
Notes
History note: Unknown before testator
Legal notes
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 6.6 cm
Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 8.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2009)
by
Keynes, W. M., Dr.
Dating
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1795
-
1800
School or Style
Chinese
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( greyish-black)
enamel
( two shades of blue, green, turquoise, pink, puce, apricot, red, and grey)
Materials used in production
uneven inside footring, with small bare areas; presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Glazing
: Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transfer-printed overglaze in greyish-black, and painted in two shades of blue, green, turquoise, pink, puce, apricot, red, and grey enamels
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
- Text: IV.B.1
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in blue biro
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.29-2010
Primary reference Number: 177296
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: IV.B.1
Stable URI
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
