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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in pale salmon-pink and puce enamels and gold with flowerheads, triangles, and garlands. Pattern no. ‘362’
Hard-paste porcelain, with presumed lead-glaze, painted in pale salmon-pink and puce enamels, and gilded. The oval basin is of deep-sided ogee form moulded in two halves, with ring handles at either end, standing on an oval foot, The cover is of domed ogee form with an oval tureen-shaped knob, under which there is small circular hole. The basin has a gold band round the lower and upper edges, with below the latter, a broad border comprising on each side, three salmon-pink rosettes reserved in gold disks enclosed by waving garlands of small gold and puce leaves. In the spaces above there are puce triangles with gold edges. On the lower part of the bowl here are two gold sprigs on each side. The cover has a similar border, three spaced out gold sprigs, and gold bands round the top of the cover and the edge of the knob, which is also has swirling gold stripes. '362' painted on the base in pale purple enamel.
History note: Unknown before Kenneth Henry Bolton; his widow, Hazel Elizabeth Bolton
Given by Hazel Elizabeth Bolton in memory of her late husband, Kenneth Henry Bolton
Height: 14.5 cm
Length: 14.3 cm
Width: 10.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2017-11-20) by Bolton, Hazel Elizabeth, Mrs
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1795
CE
-
1805
CE
New Hall porcelain is described as a hybrid hard-paste porcelain because although it had a hard-paste body, the glaze contained lead and was fired at a lower temperature.
Decoration composed of enamel ( pale slamon-pink and puce) gold
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, lead-glazed, painted in pale salmon-pink and puce enamels and gold
Glazing
Accession number: C.39 & A-2017
Primary reference Number: 222897
Entry Form number: 1338
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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