Keeling tea bowl & saucer, pink flower head & swags pattern # 137, c. 1790

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Keeling tea bowl & saucer, painted in the Chinese Export style with pink flower head & swags (pattern #137).
Circa 1790

restored teabowl, saucer has a crack.

 

See Barratt ‘A&E Keeling’ p63 for the pattern

Keeling is a fascinating small factory that was only positively  identified in the late 1990’s. The wares are often in the Chinese Export style, of which the best known manufacturer is Newhall.
In the 1970’s was given the placeholder ‘Factory X’ name until it could be attributed to a known manufacturer. Alongside it were two other Newhall-type manufacturers, Factory ‘Y’ and ‘Z’.

Current research has revealed ‘X’ is in fact A & E Keeling, ‘Y’ is still an unknown smaller maker from circa 1790-1800, and ‘Z’ is Thomas Wolf & Co.

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