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

Coffee Can, Cup and Saucer

ca. 1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Coffee can, cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with three landscape vignettes in brown interspersed with three gilt floral pendents with a brown ribbon-tie. Upper and lower borders with gilt lines.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Coffee Can
  • Cup
  • Saucer
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Coffee can, cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, probably J. & C. Whitehead, Hanley, ca. 1800.
Physical description
Coffee can, cup and saucer of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with three landscape vignettes in brown interspersed with three gilt floral pendents with a brown ribbon-tie. Upper and lower borders with gilt lines.
Object history
From a service of which one piece in the City Museum, Stoke on Trent, bears the mark W***
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.14 to B-1972

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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