Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Factory:
New Hall Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Bone china, bat-printed onglaze and painted in yellow, green, red, purple, and brown enamels, and gilded. Pattern no. 984
Bone china, bat-printed onglaze in pale purple, painted over in yellow, green, red, brown, pale and dark purple enamels, and gilded. The Bute-shape cup has an oval ring handle. The circular saucer has curved sides and stands on a footring. Inside the cup there is a central gold sprig with two leaves and a bud, and a horizontal gold band 1.6 cm below the rim. On one side of the exterior there is a vignette of a cottage in a landscape, and on the other side, a different cottage with a standing cow, a cow lying down, and a sheet grazing in the foreground. There are gold bands round the base and rim, and on the back of the handle, six stylzied leaves of graduated size. The saucer is decorated with a larger vignette of a landscape with a man wearing a red coat driving five sheep towards a farmhouse with a tree behind it and another on the right. There is a gold band 1.6 cm below the rim and another on the edge. Pattern 984.
Notes
History note: Unknown before testator
Legal notes
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Bone china was introduced at New Hall about 1812
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( b)
enamel
( pale and dark purple, green, yellow, red)
gold
Saucer
Diameter 13.9 cm
Height 3 cm
Cup
Diameter 8.3 cm
Height 6 cm cm
Width 9.8 cm
Materials used in production
Glaze
Bone china
Techniques used in production
Glazing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: New/Hall within a double circle
- Location: On base of saucer
- Method of creation: Printed faintly in red
- Type: Factory mark
- Text: a narrow cross or V
- Location: Near footring on base of saucer
- Method of creation: Painted in pale purple
- Type: Painter's mark
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
- Text: I.D.11
- Location: On base of both pieces
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.76 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 177458
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: I.D.11
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
