Chinese style tea bowl, New Hall Factory

An image of Tea Bowl/Cup. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The inside is decorated in the middle with a Chinese boy trying to catch a butterfly with a fence and bushes in the background, and round the rim there are two narrow red lines with below, at intervals, six inverted hearts with a circle below each. On one side of the exterior, is a boy trying to catch a butterfly, and a Chinaman with flowering trees and bushes, and on the other side, a woman holding a sceptre with a fence, a small tree, and bushes behind her. Pattern 421. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, probably thrown, glazed, and painted overglaze in enamels, lead-glazed, height, whole, 7.3 cm, diameter, whole, 15.3 cm, circa 1795-1805. Chinese Style.

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Tea Bowl/Cup. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The inside is decorated in the middle with a Chinese boy trying to catch a butterfly with a fence and bushes in the background, and round the rim there are two narrow red lines with below, at intervals, six inverted hearts with a circle below each. On one side of the exterior, is a boy trying to catch a butterfly, and a Chinaman with flowering trees and bushes, and on the other side, a woman holding a sceptre with a fence, a small tree, and bushes behind her. Pattern 421. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, probably thrown, glazed, and painted overglaze in enamels, lead-glazed, height, whole, 7.3 cm, diameter, whole, 15.3 cm, circa 1795-1805. Chinese Style.

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Accession Number: C.20-2010
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 849 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 80.85kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:08:21 14:39:05

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18th Century 19th Century bowl boys butterflies butterfly ceramics child children Chinese Style costume cup drinking vessel enamel enamelled English Fitz_AA flowers Georgian glazed hard-paste porcelain hearts New Hall Porcelain Factory Orientalism painted porcelain service ware serving piece Staffordshire Pottery studio ceramics tableware taking tea tea bowl tea cup teabowl teacup teaware thrown vessel white

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