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Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain printed underglaze in blue with a Chinese lake scene and border
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain printed underglaze in blue, and gilded. Oval with a six-sided shaped edge, shallow, sloping, fluted sides, and flat base. The flat area is decorated with a Chinese landscape, with buildings amid trees on the right, a man near a bridge, and a man standing on a bridge leading to a small island to the left of centre, a boat on water, on the left, a shore with a building amid tree and rocks on the left. On the slides there is border of scrolls, foliage and fruit with dotted beads on the edge. There is a gold band round the lower edge of the sides and round the upper edge.
History note: Kenneth Henry Bolton; Mrs Hazel E. Bolton
Given by Mrs Hazel E. Bolton in memory of her late husband Kenneth Henry Bolton
Height: 1.4 cm
Length: 14.5 cm
Width: 9.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2017-11-20) by Bolton, Hazel Elizabeth, Mrs
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1782
CE
-
1787
CE
New Hall porcelain is described as hybrid hard-paste because it has a hard-paste body with a lead-glaze fired at a lower temperature
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt) gold
presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
Hybrid porcelain
Inscription present: Rectangular white paper stick-on label with inscription in blue biro
Accession number: C.36-2017
Primary reference Number: 222885
Entry Form number: 1338
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Spoon tray" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/222885 Accessed: 2025-06-21 19:33:01
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