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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, with Chinese figures including a boy with a butterfly. Pattern no. 421.
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, thrown, glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, green, turquoise, pink, puce, flesh-pink, red, brown, and black enamels. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The inside is decorated in the middle with a Chinese boy trying to catch a butterfly with a fence and bushes in the background, and round the rim there are two narrow red lines with below, at intervals, six inverted hearts with a circle below each. On one side of the exterior, is a boy trying to catch a butterfly, and a man with flowering trees and bushes, and on the other side, a woman holding a sceptre with a fence, a small tree, and bushes behind her. Pattern 421.
History note: Unknown before testator
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest
Diameter: 15.3 cm
Diameter: 6⅛ in
Height: 7.3 cm
Height: 2 ⅞ in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
End of 18th or early 19th century
George III
Circa
1795
-
1805
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue, green, turquoise, pink, puce, flesh-pink, red, brown, and black)
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Throwing
: Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, probably thrown, glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, green, turquoise, pink, puce, flesh-pink, red, brown, and black enamels
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.20-2010
Primary reference Number: 176719
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: I.H.2
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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