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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Coffee Pot

ca. 1712-1715 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Coffee pot with cover of red brown stoneware, after a Turkish metal model. Curved spout springing from a fish head, lower part bowl shaped, upper part tapering to neck. Handle lost and replaced with wood and gilt metal. Engraved high cover lost and replaced with a low Böttger stoneware cover after a Chinese model. Relief moulded in panels alternately plain and with diaper ornament, the plain panels wheel-polished.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Coffee Pot
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
Böttger red stoneware with relief moulded decoration and partly wheel-polished
Brief description
Coffee pot with cover, Böttger red stoneware, partly wheel-polished, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1712-15
Physical description
Coffee pot with cover of red brown stoneware, after a Turkish metal model. Curved spout springing from a fish head, lower part bowl shaped, upper part tapering to neck. Handle lost and replaced with wood and gilt metal. Engraved high cover lost and replaced with a low Böttger stoneware cover after a Chinese model. Relief moulded in panels alternately plain and with diaper ornament, the plain panels wheel-polished.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.5cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
A line crossed by two short strokes (Impressed, mark of the thrower Johann Christoph Krumbholz (active 1712-19))
Credit line
Given by Mrs Herbert Allen
Object history
Formerly Joseph Marryat Collection.
Production
Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.34&A-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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