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

Chocolate Pot

ca. 1745 (made)
Artist/Maker
Meissen Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Meissen (made)

Chocolate pot and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Pear-shaped, rib-moulded, S-handle, funnel-spout. Low cover with ball knob. Painted in colours with Holzschnittblumen and 'shadowed' insects. Spout and handle touched with crimson purple. Brown edges.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Tea, Coffee & Chocolate Wares
Drinking
Object type
Chocolate pot
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Chocolate Pot
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, with moulded decoration and painted in enamels
Hard Paste Porcelain
Painted
Moulded
Brief description
Chocolate pot and cover, hard-paste porcelain with moulded decoration and painted in enamels, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1745
Physical description
Chocolate pot and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Pear-shaped, rib-moulded, S-handle, funnel-spout. Low cover with ball knob. Painted in colours with Holzschnittblumen and 'shadowed' insects. Spout and handle touched with crimson purple. Brown edges.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.7cm
  • Diameter: 8.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Crossed swords with a dot (Factory mark, in underglaze blue)
  • '3' (Impressed)
  • 'F.' (In crimson-purple, possibly for the painter Fleischer who left for Vienna in 1746.)
Credit line
Given by Mr R. Clarke Edwards
Object history
Part of a tea service (C.335 to 344-1918).
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
Flowers
Insects
Bibliographic reference
Honey, W. B. Dresden china: an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain. London: A. & C. Black, 1946, Pl. XXIV (b), pp. 90, 96, 166.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.335&A-1918

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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