New Hall porcelain spoon tray with a Chinese lake scene and border (base)

An image of Spoon tray. New Hall Porcelain Factory, England, Staffordshire. Oval with a six-sided shaped edge, shallow, sloping, fluted sides, and flat base. The flat area is decorated with a Chinese landscape, with buildings amid trees on the right, a man near a bridge, and a man standing on a bridge leading to a small island to the left of centre, a boat on water, on the left, a shore with a building amid tree and rocks on the left. On the slides there is border of scrolls, foliage and fruit with dotted beads on the edge. There is a gold band round the lower edge of the sides and round the upper edge. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain printed underglaze in blue, and gilded. Height, whole, 1.4 cm, length, whole, 14.5 cm, width, whole, 9.5 cm, circa 1782-1787. Chinese style.

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Spoon tray. New Hall Porcelain Factory, England, Staffordshire. Oval with a six-sided shaped edge, shallow, sloping, fluted sides, and flat base. The flat area is decorated with a Chinese landscape, with buildings amid trees on the right, a man near a bridge, and a man standing on a bridge leading to a small island to the left of centre, a boat on water, on the left, a shore with a building amid tree and rocks on the left. On the slides there is border of scrolls, foliage and fruit with dotted beads on the edge. There is a gold band round the lower edge of the sides and round the upper edge. Hybrid hard-paste porcelain printed underglaze in blue, and gilded. Height, whole, 1.4 cm, length, whole, 14.5 cm, width, whole, 9.5 cm, circa 1782-1787. Chinese style.

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Accession Number: C.36-2017
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 742 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Filesize: 78.83kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 45/1

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