Chinese style tea bowl, New Hall Factory

An image of Tea Bowl/Cup. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. The bowl is circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. On one side of the exterior there is a Chinese scene with one seated and two standing Chinese men. The one on the left holds a parasol, and the one on the right is standing beside a table with a potted plant on it. On each side there is a flowering plant. On the opposite side there is a group of fan-shaped plants on a small area of grass. In the bottom of the cup there is a puce bud and two leaves, and round the rim, a red line with a red scalloped line below it. Pattern no.157. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, probably thrown, or jiggering, painted overglaze in enamels, lead-glazed, height, whole, 4.6 cm, diameter, whole, 8.2 cm, circa 1785-1790. Chinese Style.

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Tea Bowl/Cup. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. The bowl is circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. On one side of the exterior there is a Chinese scene with one seated and two standing Chinese men. The one on the left holds a parasol, and the one on the right is standing beside a table with a potted plant on it. On each side there is a flowering plant. On the opposite side there is a group of fan-shaped plants on a small area of grass. In the bottom of the cup there is a puce bud and two leaves, and round the rim, a red line with a red scalloped line below it. Pattern no.157. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, probably thrown, or jiggering, painted overglaze in enamels, lead-glazed, height, whole, 4.6 cm, diameter, whole, 8.2 cm, circa 1785-1790. Chinese Style.

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Accession Number: C.19-2010
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 979 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 96.68kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:08:21 15:12:39

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18th Century bowl ceramics Chinese Style cup drinking vessel enamel enamelled English figures Fitz_AA Georgian glazed hard-paste porcelain New Hall Porcelain Factory Orientalism painted parasol porcelain scenes service ware serving piece Staffordshire Pottery studio ceramics tableware taking tea tea bowl tea cup teabowl teacup teaware thrown umbrellas vessel white

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