Plate: C.30-2010

Maker(s)

Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory

Entities

• Plate

Categories

• Hybrid hard-paste porcelain

Description

Hybrid hard-paste porcelain transfer-printed and painted in enamels with a Chinese scene known as 'the Window' or the Boy at the Window'. Pattern 425

Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, transfer-printed onglaze in black, and painted in greyish-blue, two shades of green, pink, dark puce, apricot, red, and black enamels. Circular with sloping sides, and slightly convex centre, standing on a footring. The central area is decorated with a Chinese figure scene known as 'the Window' or the Boy at the Window'. Pattern 425. On the left, a young woman stands beside a grey table, watched by two boys, and a young man leans out of the window of a house on the right. In the background there is a red fence and a pink and puce landscape. The border comprises oval scroll-edged reserves containing vague landscapes in red and apricot, and smaller round reserves containing a plant with a pink flower, separated by areas of two different pink and dark puce diaper patterns. Round the rim there is a dotted red line between two narrow black lines.

Notes

History note: Unknown before testator

Legal notes

Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009

Place(s) associated

• Shelton ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.

Dating

Late 18th or early 19th century
George III
Circa 1795 - 1810

School or Style

Chinese