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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in puce enamel and gold with undulating leafy stem and puce flowers and bud. Pattern no. 318.
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, painted overglaze in puce enamel, and gilded. The tea bowl has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The saucer (A) has curved sides, a wide central area, and stands on footring. The coffee cup (B) has deep almost straight sides curving inwards slightly at the footring, and a loop handle.The tea bowl is decorated in the middle with a gold spray with two different puce flowers. Round the upper edge is a border comprising a continuous wavy gold spray of leaves with a small and a larger puce flower repeated at intervals. Below there is a wavy horizontal gold line and on the rim a plain gold band. On the exterior there is a horizontal gold band below the rim, and another round the footring. The saucer is decorated to match. The coffee cup is decorated on the outside with the same border and gold bands on the rim and footring. On the back of the handle here are three gold stylized leaf sprigs. Pattern no. 318.
History note: Unknown before testator
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1800
-
1805
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( puce)
gold
Saucer
Diameter 13.5 cm
Height 3 cm
Coffee Cup
Diameter 6.5 cm
Height 6.5 cm
Width 8.6 cm
Tea Bowl
Diameter 8.8 cm
Height 5.2 cm
presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Glazing : Hybrid hard-paste porcleain, glazed, painted overglaze in puce enamel, and gilded
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.65 & A-B-2010
Primary reference Number: 177418
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: I.A.3
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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