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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, painted in two-tone purplish-brown enamel with strawberry leaves and pairs of strawberries on an undulating gold stem. Pattern no. 285.
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, glazed, painted overglaze in two tones of purplish-brown enamel, and gilded. The cup has deep almost straight sides, curving inwards slightly at the footring, and having a loop handle. The circular saucer has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The cup is decorated on the outside at the top with a border of pairs of two-tone purplish-brown strawberries alternating with a single leaf, on an undulating gold stem with smaller gold leaves branching off it. Below there a horizontal gold band, with a very narrow one below, and there iare further bands round the rim and base. The back of the handle is decorated with a few gold tiny dots and four stylized gold trefoil leaves.The saucer has one purplish-brown strawberry and a leaf on a gold stem in the centre, and a similar border around the edge.
History note: Unknown before testator
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1797
-
1803
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( purplish-brown)
gold
Sucer
Diameter 13 cm
Cup
Diameter 6.3 cm
Height 6.5 cm
Width 8.4 cm
Saucer
Height 3.4 cm
presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.63 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 177417
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: I.B.4
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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