Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Factory:
New Hall Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Bone china, painted iunderglaze in blue, overglaze in polychrome enamels and gilded with two exotic birds in an Oriental garden. Pattern no. 1681.
Bone china, press-moulded, and painted underglaze in blue, overglaze in blue, green, turquoise-green, apricot-pink, pale puce pink, and iron-red enamels, and gilded. Circular with deep sloping sides, resting on a footring. The front is painted with two exotic birds in an Oriental garden. Pattern no. 1681. The ground, a fence, and a tree with circular flowers, and the outlines of two birds, one by the tree and one in the air on the left are painted underglaze in blue. The rest of the design is painted in enamels and gold. To the left of the fence there is a plant with two red and green flowers. On the right there is a low apricot-pink table on which is a blue vase containing a plant with small red flowers and two gold fern fronds. The bird by the tree has a pale puce breast and two red tail feathers. The one in the air has a yellow throat, a pale puce body, and two red tail feathers. Round the rim there is an underglaze blue band overlaid by gold slanting leaves and buds between two gold circles.
Notes
History note: Unknown before testator
Legal notes
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 20.5 cm
Height: 3.5 cm
Place(s) associated
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Shelton
⪼ Staffordshire
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2009)
by
Keynes, W. M., Dr.
Dating
19th Century, Early#
George III
George IV
Production date:
circa
AD 1820
School or Style
Oriental style
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( in blue, green, turquoise-green, apricot-pink, pale puce pink, and iron-red)
cobalt
gold
Materials used in production
Glaze
Bone china
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Bone china, press-moulded, and painted underglaze in blue, overglaze in blue, green, turquoise-green, apricot-pink, pale puce pink, and iron-red enamels, and gilded
Glazing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 1681
- Location: On base near footring
- Method of creation: Painted faintly in mauve enamel
- Type: Pattern number
Inscription present: rectangular off-white paper stick-on label
- Text: DUNCALFE printed in black/New Hall, /c. 1805/£48 in black biro
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Printed in black and hand-written in black biro
- Type: Label
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on-label
- Text: IV.A.13
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.48-2010
Primary reference Number: 177379
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: IV.A.13
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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