Chinese style milk jug, New Hall Factory

An image of Milk Jug. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Painted with a Chinese scene known as The Boy with a Butterfly. Of silver-shape with a loop handle. The exterior is decorated with a continuous Chinese scene: two fuzzy black bushes behind a red fence; a woman wearing green and puce clothing, standing holding a sceptre; a black bush and a rock beside a flowering tree; a boy dressed in green and dark puce who is holding up his arms towards a butterfly; two black bushes flanking a flowering tree; a standing man dressed in blue; and a black bush beside a red fence. The ground is indicated by horizontal red strokes. Round the outside of the rim there are two narrow red lines under which are four inverted hearts with a circle below each. On the inside edge of the rim there is a puce band, and down the back of the handle, graduated dots, a fan-shaped flower, and a long vertical stroke terminating in an arrowhead. Pattern 421. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, lead-glazed, moulded, and painted in enamels, height, whole, 10.7 cm, width, whole, 11.6 cm, circa 1800-1805. Chinese Style.

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Milk Jug. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Painted with a Chinese scene known as The Boy with a Butterfly. Of silver-shape with a loop handle. The exterior is decorated with a continuous Chinese scene: two fuzzy black bushes behind a red fence; a woman wearing green and puce clothing, standing holding a sceptre; a black bush and a rock beside a flowering tree; a boy dressed in green and dark puce who is holding up his arms towards a butterfly; two black bushes flanking a flowering tree; a standing man dressed in blue; and a black bush beside a red fence. The ground is indicated by horizontal red strokes. Round the outside of the rim there are two narrow red lines under which are four inverted hearts with a circle below each. On the inside edge of the rim there is a puce band, and down the back of the handle, graduated dots, a fan-shaped flower, and a long vertical stroke terminating in an arrowhead. Pattern 421. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, lead-glazed, moulded, and painted in enamels, height, whole, 10.7 cm, width, whole, 11.6 cm, circa 1800-1805. Chinese Style.

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Accession Number: C.23-2010
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 955 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 480.54kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:08:21 14:44:07

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19th Century boys butterfly ceramics child children Chinese Style enamel enamelled English Fitz_AA Georgian glazed handle handled hard-paste porcelain jug lead-glazed milk jug moulded New Hall Porcelain Factory Orientalism painted porcelain service ware serving piece spout spouted Staffordshire Pottery studio ceramics tableware taking tea white

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