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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Tea Bowl and Saucer

ca. 1800-1810 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tea-bowl and saucer of lead-glazed hard-paste porcelain. Handleless hemispherical tea-bowl with deeply undercut foot ring, standing in a deep saucer. Round the rim of both bowl and saucer a plain brown red line, below which a frieze consisting of fringed scarves looped in festoons, painted in the same colour. At the bottom of both cup and saucer a formalized flower-spray, the leaves represented by flourished lines, all painted in brown-red.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Saucer
  • Cup
Materials and techniques
Lead-glazed hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Brief description
Teabowl and saucer, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, made by New Hall porcelain factory, Staffordshire, about 1800-1810
Physical description
Tea-bowl and saucer of lead-glazed hard-paste porcelain. Handleless hemispherical tea-bowl with deeply undercut foot ring, standing in a deep saucer. Round the rim of both bowl and saucer a plain brown red line, below which a frieze consisting of fringed scarves looped in festoons, painted in the same colour. At the bottom of both cup and saucer a formalized flower-spray, the leaves represented by flourished lines, all painted in brown-red.
Dimensions
  • Of cup height: 5cm
  • Of cup diameter: 8.8cm
  • Of saucer diameter: 13.4cm
Dimensions converted from imperial
Gallery label
Teabowl and saucer made by New Hall porcelain factory, Staffordshire, England about 1820 hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels C.51&A-1949 Given by Mr A. F. Collins(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Given by Mr A. F. Collins
Production
The pattern corresponds to New Hall's hard-paste porcelain pattern number 455. The attribution to New Hall was confirmed by Pat Preller 2004.
Collection
Accession number
C.51&A-1949

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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