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

Coffee Pot and Cover

ca. 1740 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Coffee pot and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Purple ground, each piece with two barbed reserves with landscapes with peasant and gallant figures. Gilt lip.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Coffee Pot
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded
Brief description
Coffee pot and cover, hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1740.
Physical description
Coffee pot and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Purple ground, each piece with two barbed reserves with landscapes with peasant and gallant figures. Gilt lip.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Crossed swords (Factory mark, in blue)
  • '35' (In gold)
  • '11' [in gothic numerals] (Impressed, unidentified throwers mark)
Object history
From Bernal Collection.
Production
Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
1954&A-1855

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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