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Maker(s):New Hall Factory (attributed)
Culture:English (w. c.1782-1835)
Title:saucer
Date Made:1790-1795
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: hybrid hard-paste porcelain, transfer print, underglaze cobalt enamel, gilding
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire; Shelton
Measurements:overall: 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2006.26.3
Credit Line:Anonymous
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
English hybrid hard-paste porcelain circular, shallow saucer with applied footrim (with teacup, HD 2006.26.2), decorated in dark and light blues with a transfer-printed, Chinese-inspired design often referred to by collectors as the "Malay House", "Malayan Village", "Pearl River House", or "Trench Mortar" pattern and with a "Fitzhugh" style border banded by a gilt-edged rim and an inner band of gilding. Dr. Watney compared the drainpipe forms in the design to trench mortar weapons, from which the pattern name "Trench Mortar" was taken. Robert Copeland (in "English Ceramic Circle Transactions", vol. 10, part 2, 1977, p. 100) has recommended that the design be named "Malayan Village" based on the close resemblance to a scene in "Picturesque Voyage to India; by way of China" by the English artists Thomas Daniell (1749-1840) and his nephew William Daniell (1769-1837) who traveled to India in the late 18th century and twice visited Canton, once on the journey out in 1785, and once on the return voyage in 1794. Upon their return to England, William exhibited a series of paintings based on their trip to the East at the Royal Academy in London, and together they published various illustrated books, including "A Picturesque Voyage..." which was published by Longmans in London in 1810. This teacup and saucer have been attributed to the New Hall Factory, but this blue printed design is also found on English earthenwares such as Spode's pearlware pieces; printed on one other non-New Hall English make of procelain; and hand painted on Chinese export hard-paste procelain. The scene has a Chinese-style landscape with an tall, thatched-roofed house on an island with a row of bamboo posts along the side of the house forming a limited barricade or sun-shade type fence or drainpipes, small stone arched bridge, the water washed in by hand in a pale blue, trees, rocks, and hills in the background. The set was found by the donor at a yard sale at Baird's Tavern in Tyringham (near Otis and Becket), Massachusetts.

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