New Hall Porcelain teacup and saucer, early 1800s, Shelton, Staffordshire.

Bone china teacup and saucer, painted in underglaze and enamel colours and gilded, with wide, gilt bordered bands of white flowers, green and gilded leaves, against a cobalt blue ground.

The teacup has a repair to its handle. Spots of wear to gilt rims and gilt pattern to centre of cup and saucer.

This pattern #1160 on a coffee can and saucer is represented in the Victoria & Albert Museum, ca. 1815.

The New Hall China Works operated between 1781 and 1835, producing porcelain teawares, initially of hard paste porcelain (using the patented method bought from William Cookworthy and Richard Champion in Bristol) and from around 1812-14 of bone china.