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

Coffee Can and Saucer

1808-1818 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cylindrical coffee can with loop handle printed in black with a panel with bacchanalian scene after Poussin and with trophies, the saucer printed with a full length portrait of Napoleon and with a border of trophies


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Cups
  • Saucer
Materials and techniques
Creamware (faïence fine), transfer-printed in black
Brief description
Creamware coffee can and saucer made at Creil pottery factory 1808-1818 and transfer-printed by Stone, Coquerel and Le Gros
Physical description
Cylindrical coffee can with loop handle printed in black with a panel with bacchanalian scene after Poussin and with trophies, the saucer printed with a full length portrait of Napoleon and with a border of trophies
Marks and inscriptions
  • printed circular mark in black: 'SCL' in monogram with 'PAR BREVET D'INVENTION-PARIS-Manufre d'Impression sur Faience, Porcelaine etc'
  • the cup with two dots painted in black and with '10' printed in black; the saucer with a dot painted in black
Gallery label
Gallery 128 Decant 2003 The cup is transfer-printed with bacchanalian scene after Poussin and the saucer with a full length portrait of Napoleon.(07/06/2004)
Credit line
Given by Arthur Myers Smith, Esq.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.543&A-1920

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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