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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Coffee Pot

1793-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Creamware coffee pot with hinged lid and mushroom-like knop and double entwined handle attached with stamped ornament to body. Painted in enamel colours with flowers (mostly roses) and a bullfinch on a flowering tree stump.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Cream-coloured earthenware, thrown and turned, with applied knop and handle and lid hinged in pewter-like metal (the hinge probably a replacement); painted in enamel colours; some stamped work
Brief description
Creamware coffee pot with hinged lid and double entwined handle attached to body, painted in enamel colours with flowers, Czech Republic (Prague), 1793-1800
Physical description
Creamware coffee pot with hinged lid and mushroom-like knop and double entwined handle attached with stamped ornament to body. Painted in enamel colours with flowers (mostly roses) and a bullfinch on a flowering tree stump.
Dimensions
  • Height: 23.3cm
  • Including handle width: 12.6cm
  • Diameter: 10.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
'PRAG' and '2', impressed
Credit line
The Wyatt Bequest
Subjects depicted
Other number
LOAN:WYATT.15 - previous loan number
Collection
Accession number
C.198-2003

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Record createdJanuary 12, 2004
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