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Teapot: C.88 & A-2010

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory

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Description

Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels with a pink and puce trellis border, a dotted wavy line and floral sprigs. Pattern 173.

Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed and painted overglaze in blue, yellowish-green, pink, puce, and purple enamels. Of boat-shape; bulbous oval body with high collar at the font, facetted spout, and strap handle. Behind the spout on the inside there are ten holes surrounding a central hole. The domed cover has a ventilation hole, and an oval conical knob with a hole below it. The pot is decorated on both sides with a rose spray flanked by four small green leaves and a red and a blue floral sprig, with above an undulating line of purple dots. On the shoulder there is a pink border with red edges and dark puce dotted trellis pattern which waves outwards in two places on each side, and has there a pair of either red dotted or purple dotted flowerheads and leaves. The top of the spout is painted in puce with a fan-shaped flower and a row of dots of graduated size. The top of the handle has a short row of graduated dots, a fan-shaped flower head, a spot, a vertical stroke, and on the terminal a curved line, all in puce. The cover is decorated to match, and has puce strokes radiating from the point. Pattern 173.

Notes

History note: Unknown before donor

Legal notes

Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009

Measurements and weight

Height: 15.5 cm
Length: 26.7 cm cm

Place(s) associated

  • Shelton ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century, Late
George III
Circa 1795 - 1800

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel ( blue, yellowish-green, pink, puce, purple and red)

Materials used in production

presumed lead-glaze Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazed
Moulded

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: narrow rectangular white paper stick-on label

  • Text: NEW HALL PATT. . ./1782-87 3
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black biro
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label

  • Text: I.C.1
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Hand-wriotten in black ink
  • Type: Label

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.88 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 177469
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: I.C.1
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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