Period: Regency
Maker: New Hall Porcelain Works
The charming unrecorded pattern on this New Hall coffee can combines ‘English Imari’ fancy with Regency formalism. Orange ‘curtains’ with gilt scrolls and stylised flower bursts frame three ‘windows.’ Two of the windows overlook an Oriental dwelling painted in red, orange and gold, with a weeping willow in the garden. Green willow leaves hang down from a pale-blue branch. Through the other window are red and gold flower heads and pale green leaves.
Condition A few fractures that may be due to manufacture. (A) There are two faint star-cracks, one to the base, the other midway up the side. The side crack is almost imperceptible from the outside and the base crack too is hardly noticeable. (B) A glaze hairline partially across upper terminal of the handle terminal that does not extend and was probably caused by manufacturing stress. Decoration in good order. Minor rubbing to gilt edging on lip. Displays well.
Height: 5.9 cm; Diameter: 6.3 cm; Width: 8.4 cm
Net weight: 83 g
Medium: Hard-paste porcelain
Origin: Stoke-on-Trent, England
