Coffee Pot
ca. 1740 -1745 (made)
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Towards the mid 1700s, the Meissen factory in Saxony developed a crisp, formal style of botanical painting. This well suited the hard greyish porcelain and the precise forms, which were influenced by metalwork.
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 enamel colours and gilt |
| Brief description | Porcelain coffee pot made by Meissen, Germany, ca. 1740 -1745 |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss Florence Augusta Beare in memory of Arthur Doveton Clarke |
| 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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| Summary | Towards the mid 1700s, the Meissen factory in Saxony developed a crisp, formal style of botanical painting. This well suited the hard greyish porcelain and the precise forms, which were influenced by metalwork. |
| Bibliographic reference | Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.999&A-1919 |
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| Record created | April 18, 2000 |
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