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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transfer-printed and painted in enamels with Chinese figures outside pavilions. Pattern no. 621
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, faintly transfer-printed and painted in blue, two shades of green, bright yellow, flesh pink, apricot puce, red, brown, and purple enamels. Circular cup with deep curved sides standing on a footring. Saucer with curved sides and footring. The cup is decorated inside with a group of red grasses and round the rim with a border of adjacent dotted red circles. On the outside there are two approximately oval Chinese figure scenes separated by panels of puce trellis with a reserved oval panel over purple trellis with two circular reserves. The saucer has a circular Chinese figure scene of five ladies outside a pavilion, and a wide border of puce and purple trellis broken by three oblong reserves coloured apricot and red, and three circular reserves containing red stylized plants. Pattern 621.
History note: Unknown before testator
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
19th Century, Early#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1800
Decoration
composed of
enamel
Saucer
Diameter 13.6 cm
Height 3 cm
Cup
Diameter 9 cm
Height 5.2 cm
presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Glazing : Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transfer-printed and painted overglaze in blue, two shades of green, bright yellow, flesh pink, apricot puce, red, brown, and purple enamels
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label
Inscription present: circular white paper stick on label
Accession number: C.31 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 177297
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: I I 2
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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