Description:
One of two English hybrid hard-paste porcelain circular teacups (with HD 1999.30.3), which has a ring handle, and two deep saucers (HD 1999.30.2, 1999.30.4), decorated in pink, orange, green, blue, black, purple, and turquoise with the "Window" pattern. The New Hall Factory, which operated under several different partnerships over the years at Shelton, used this pattern on both their hybrid hard paste (described on their billhead as "real china") and, after the management changed their standard mix from the hybrid hard paste to a version of bone china about 1814, on their bone china wares. The early New Hall hybrid porcelain wares are mainly unmarked, or bear only the painted pattern number often prefixed by 'N' or 'No'; however, other firms also marked their wares in a similar fashion. The chinoiserie scene depicts a man leaning out of a window talking to a woman leaning against a table and two children, foliage, landscape in the background, and other stylized chinoiserie motifs. There is a similar pattern found on Chinese export porcelain examples, which may have been the source of this pattern.
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