Penrose Antiques

Description

We have for sale the perfect gift for the collector of New Hall porcelain, an early New Hall fluted tea bowl and saucer.

This lovely fluted hard paste porcelain tea bowl and saucer is decorated in pattern with Pattern No. 142 (See Page 4 of “A partial Reconstruction of the New Hall Pattern Book” by Patricia Preller, 2003) which consists of a border formed from a double helix of gilded golden brown feathers and a dotted line between a gilded rim and a thin gilded band around a centre decorated with another thin gilded band surrounding a gilded sprig.

The New Hall Factory was established when John Turner, Anthony Keeling, Samuel Hollins, Jacob and Peter Warburton and John Daniel bought the patent for hard paste porcelain from Richard Champion owner of the Bristol Porcelain factory in 1781 (see “Armorial Porcelain the Genesis”, R.L. Denyer, M.C.T. Denyer and H.G.M. Edwards, Springer Nature, in press and due to be published late summer/autumn 2024). New hall continued making porcelain right up until 1835. Following a short delay associated with perfecting the method of manufacturing hard paste porcelain, New Hall created somewhere around 80-90 new patterns every year with those patterns being allocated pattern numbers in chronological order. This means that New Hall Pattern No. 142 is one of the earliest patterns dating the tea bowl and saucer to somewhere around 1783 to 1784.

The saucer is 5.1 inches (13cm) in diameter and the tea bowl is 1.75 inches (4.4cm) high and 3.25 inches (8.25cm) in diameter. Both the tea bowl and saucer are in a very good to excellent condition with very little wear to the gilding or decoration, although there some black speckling, probably carbonised sand particles, that became embedded in the glaze to the inside of the the bowl during firing. This tea bowl and saucer has obviously spent most of the last 240 years o so in a display cabinet.