Chocolate Pot
ca. 1760-1775 (made)
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Chocolate pot and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Cylindrical shape. Scroll-moulded handle socket and spout. Ribbed relief-moulding. Turned wood handle. Metal stir-hole cover formed as a floral spray. Painted in crimson-purple camaieu with Indian flowers and banded hedges.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels |
| Brief description | Chocolate pot and cover, hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1760-1775 |
| Physical description | Chocolate pot and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Cylindrical shape. Scroll-moulded handle socket and spout. Ribbed relief-moulding. Turned wood handle. Metal stir-hole cover formed as a floral spray. Painted in crimson-purple camaieu with Indian flowers and banded hedges. |
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| Gallery label | CHOCOLATE POT
1760-70
Meissen, Germany
Hard-paste porcelain
Museum no. C.114-1911
Exhibition: 'So Noble a Confection: Producing and Consuming Chocolate, 1600-1980' (19 October 2010 - 14 September 2011; Sackler Centre Entrance Lobby)(19/10/2010 - 14/09/2011) |
| Credit line | Given by Mrs Kate Bentley |
| Production | Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. |
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| Accession number | C.114&A-1911 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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