New Hall porcelain milk jug

An image of Milk jug. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Pattern no. 317. Of silver-shape with sloping panelled sides, an upward curving lip rising from the shoulder, and high loop handle. Below the shoulder there is a wide border of gold and red flowers with purple leaves with a narrow horizontal band below and a wider band above. On each side of the shoulder there is a gold sprig, and below the lip an arrangement of stylized gold foliage. A gold line runs around the upper edge and down both sides of the handle and another encircles the inside of the upper edge, then joins at the back to run down the centre of the handle. Another gold band encircles the body a little way up from the lower edge. The glaze on the base of the interior is speckled with grey. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain moulded, painted overglaze in red and purple enamels, and gilded. Height, whole, 11 cm, length, whole, 11.6 cm, length, base, 6 cm, circa 1790-1800. Neoclassical.

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Milk jug. New Hall Porcelain Factory, Staffordshire. Pattern no. 317. Of silver-shape with sloping panelled sides, an upward curving lip rising from the shoulder, and high loop handle. Below the shoulder there is a wide border of gold and red flowers with purple leaves with a narrow horizontal band below and a wider band above. On each side of the shoulder there is a gold sprig, and below the lip an arrangement of stylized gold foliage. A gold line runs around the upper edge and down both sides of the handle and another encircles the inside of the upper edge, then joins at the back to run down the centre of the handle. Another gold band encircles the body a little way up from the lower edge. The glaze on the base of the interior is speckled with grey. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain moulded, painted overglaze in red and purple enamels, and gilded. Height, whole, 11 cm, length, whole, 11.6 cm, length, base, 6 cm, circa 1790-1800. Neoclassical.

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Accession Number: C.38-2017
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 819 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 394.22kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1

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