Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Factory:
New Hall Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels with floral sprays and iron-red looped threads, known as the ‘knitting wool’ design. Pattern, no. 195.
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, glazed, except for the base of the stand, and painted in blue, green, puce, purple, and red enamels. The pot is of silver-shape with a facetted spout and loop handle. Its circular cover (A) has a pierced bulbous vase-shaped knob.The stand (B) is lozenge-shaped with four large lobes alternating with four small, sloping sides, and flat base. Each side of the pot is decorated with an arrangement of roses and other flowers and foliage, with on either side, two green leaves and a floral spray. On the shoulder there are three looped red 'knitting wool' motifs' amidst four floral festoons, and four half flowers next to the neck which is encircled by a red band round the lower edge, and a puce one round the top. The spout has a puce half flower and dots of graduated size on the top, and a row of dots of graduated size on the underside. The back of the handle has a fan-shaped puce flower with graduated dots above and a vertical stroke below. The cover is decorated to match the shoulder, and has a row of vertical puce strokes round its top. The stand has a central floral arrangement with four smaller floral sprays around it, the 'knitting wool' motif and floral sprays on the sides, and a red line round the edge. Pattern no. 195.
Notes
History note: Unknown before testator
Legal notes
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, puce, purple, and red)
Teapot
Height 15.7 cm
Length 24.2 cm
Stand
Height 2.2 cm
Length 19.8 cm
Width 16.8 cm
Teapot Base
Width 12.2 cm
Body
Materials used in production
presumed lead; not on base of stand
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Glazing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 195
- Location: On side of base of teapot
- Method of creation: Painted in puce enamel
- Type: Pattern number
- Text: 195
- Location: On one end of base of stand
- Method of creation: Painted in red enamel
- Type: Pattern number
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
- Text: I.E.4
- Location: On base of teapot
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.92 & A-B-2010
Primary reference Number: 177471
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: I.E.4
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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
