Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels with a pink scale border and rose sprays. Pattern, 273.
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted overglaze in green, red, pink, puce, and pale purple enamels. The cup has deep sides with spiral fluting on the exterior, a loop handle, and footring. The circular saucer (A) has curved sides with shallow fluting on the inside, and stands on a footring. The cup is decorated on the inside with a border below the rim, comprising four pink and puce C scrolls enclosing a pendant trefoil leaf, separated by four broad areas of puce and pink trellis with below, each with a scalloped purple line with five pendant trefoil leaves. The exterior is decorated with a rose spray, two floral sprigs with a detached leaf between them, and on the back of the handle with a puce fan-shaped flower with three spots above, a large spot and a vertical stroke below, and a V on the lower end. The saucer has a rose spray in the centre surrounded by four different floral sprigs and two detached leaves, and the same border round the rim.
History note: Unknown before testator
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1790
-
1800
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( green, pink, puce, pale purple)
Saucer
Diameter 13.8 cm
Height 3.4 cm
Cup
Diameter 6.8 cm
Height 7 cm
Width 9 cm
Handle
presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.100 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 177512
Entry form number: 1297
Old object number: I.D.4
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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