Factory: uncertain
Pearlware, transfer-printed in black, and painted in polychrome enamels, and pale lustrous orange with Chinese figures in gardens, plants, flowers, and scale panels, and round the foot and rim with bands of silver (platinum) lustre.
White earthenware, thrown, covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze (pearlware), transfer-printed in black, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, mauve, purple enamels, pale lustrous orange, and silver (platinum) lustre. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The interior is decorated with a circular medallion enclosing a Chinese scene with two women and a boy holding a butterfly on a string in a garden, surrounded by a border of spotted octagonal motifs, purple trellis pattern with a scrolled edge, and eight stylized plants. Round the rim there is a complex border of spotted octagonal motifs, birds or plants in narrow panels separated by red panels, swags of flowers, and pendant panels enclosing trellis or plant motifs. On the exterior there is a continuous design of Chinese figures in gardens including a woman looking out of a window. Much of the ground is lustrous pale orange. The rim is encircled by a silver lustre band, and there is another round the exterior of the footring.
Given by Miss Jane Sandeman
Height: 10.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2009) by Sandeman, Jane
19th Century, Early#
George III
George IV
Production date:
circa
AD 1820
Decoration
composed of
enamels
platinum lustre
Foot
Diameter 13.8 cm
Rim
Diameter 24.2 cm
Throwing
: White earthenware, thrown, covered with clear lead-glaze appearing blueish where it lies thickly within the footring, transfer-printed in black, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, mauve, purple enamels, pale lustrous orange, and silver (platinum) lustre
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label with serrated edges
Accession number: C.14-2009
Primary reference Number: 167423
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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