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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels with a Chinese scene known as 'The Boy with a Butterfly'. Pattern no. 421.
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in two shades of blue, two shades of green, dark pink, dark puce, red, brown, and black enamels. The cup has deep curved sides, and stands on a footring. The saucer has shallow curved sides and a footring. The interior of the cup is decorated at the bottom with a red plant, and round the rim with two narrow red lines under which are four stylized plants with a circle below each. The exterior is decorated with a continuous Chinese scene: two fuzzy black bushes behind a red fence; a woman wearing green and puce clothing standing holding a sceptre; a black bush and a rock beside a flowering tree; a boy dressed in green and dark puce who is holding up his arms towards a butterfly; two black bushes flanking a flowering tree; a standing man dressed in blue. The ground is indicated by horizontal brown strokes. The saucer is decorated to match with rocks, and black bushes beside a tree; a boy holding up arms to reach a butterfly, and the same man and woman standing close together beisde the boy in front of a red fence and black fuzzy bush. Round the edge there is a border matching that on the cup. Pattern 421.
History note: Unknown before testator
Dr Milo Keynes Bequst, 2009
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
18th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1800
-
1805
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( two shades of blue, two shades of green, dark pink, dark puce, red, brown, and black)
Saucer
Diameter 13.2 cm
Diameter 5 3/16 in
Height 3.5 cm
Height 1 ⅜ in
Bowl
Diameter 8.4 cm
Diameter 3 5/16 in
Height 5 cm
Height 2 in
presume lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Lead-glazing : Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted overglaze in two shades of blue, two shades of green, dark pink, dark puce, red, brown, and black enamels
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.22 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 176725
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: IV.B.2
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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