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Factory: uncertain
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain transfer-printed underglaze in blue with a Chinese landscape with a pagoda and two figures on a bridge, and gilt
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transfer-printed underglaze in blue, and gilt. Deep-sided cup with loop handle, standing on a footring. Decorated on the outside with a Chinese landscape with a pagoda and trees on the right, two Chinamen crossing a bridge between two trees, and on the left three houses and trees on an island. Above the bridge there is a boat, and there is another in the left foreground. Inside there is a broad blue band wityh projecting serrated leaves below, and a gold band on the rim. Down the back of the handle there is a vertical blue leaf spray with a gold line over it.
History note: Unknown before testator, W.M. Keynes, MD, FRCS (1924-2009), Cambridge
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest
Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 8.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
19th Century, Early
George III
Circa
1805
-
1810
Possibly New Hall
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
( ceramic printing colour)
Cup
presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Hybrid hard-paste porcelain transfer-printed underglaze blue, and gilt
Glazing
Inscription present: circular white paper stick on label
Accession number: C.10-2010
Primary reference Number: 176640
Old object number: I.K.4
Entry form number: 1027
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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