New Hall tea bowl and saucer with Chinoiserie scenes

An image of Tea bowl and saucer/cup and saucer. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Chinoiserie scenes. Pattern no. 20. The circular cup has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The saucer has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The cup is decorated on one side with a lady holding a parasol and a boy walking towards her holding a windmill and a flower with a fence behind them. On the right there is a plant in a pot and a small pine bush, and on the left a plant with a blue flower. On the other side there is a mound of grasses and five birds in the sky. Inside the rim is a border comprising a red line, a mauve scalloped line with blue flowers on the points and a dark pink spots on the curves. In the middle there is a small green plant with a purple bud. The saucer is decorated inside with the same figures and flanking motifs on a larger scale, and has a matching border round the rim. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted overglaze in blue, two-shades of green, yellow, red, dark pink, pinkish-purple, and black enamels (polychrome). Height, cup, 4.8 cm, diameter, cup, 8.1 cm, height, saucer, 3.4 cm, diameter, saucer, 13 cm, circa 1785-1800. Chinoiserie.

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Tea bowl and saucer/cup and saucer. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Chinoiserie scenes. Pattern no. 20. The circular cup has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The saucer has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The cup is decorated on one side with a lady holding a parasol and a boy walking towards her holding a windmill and a flower with a fence behind them. On the right there is a plant in a pot and a small pine bush, and on the left a plant with a blue flower. On the other side there is a mound of grasses and five birds in the sky. Inside the rim is a border comprising a red line, a mauve scalloped line with blue flowers on the points and a dark pink spots on the curves. In the middle there is a small green plant with a purple bud. The saucer is decorated inside with the same figures and flanking motifs on a larger scale, and has a matching border round the rim. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted overglaze in blue, two-shades of green, yellow, red, dark pink, pinkish-purple, and black enamels (polychrome). Height, cup, 4.8 cm, diameter, cup, 8.1 cm, height, saucer, 3.4 cm, diameter, saucer, 13 cm, circa 1785-1800. Chinoiserie.

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Accession Number: C.37 & A-2017
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 713 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 96.78kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 16/1

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