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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Coffee Pot and Cover

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

Coffee pot and cover of white stoneware with very slight smear glaze. The lower part of the body mouded with scrolling acanthus and other classical ornament, the cylindrical upper part moulded with vertical flutes, and the cover with scrolling acanthus and water-leaves. Wavy scrolled handle.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Coffee Pot
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
White stoneware, moulded and with slight smear glaze
Brief description
Coffee pot and cover, white stoneware with slight smear glaze, Turner's factory, Staffordshire, ca. 1800
Physical description
Coffee pot and cover of white stoneware with very slight smear glaze. The lower part of the body mouded with scrolling acanthus and other classical ornament, the cylindrical upper part moulded with vertical flutes, and the cover with scrolling acanthus and water-leaves. Wavy scrolled handle.
Dimensions
  • Conversion from imperial height: 25.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
"TURNER" impressed
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mrs Mary B. Sargeant
Production
Acquired as 'c. 1790'. For a matching teapot marked TURNER and dated ca. 1790-1800, see D. Edwards and R. Hampson, English Dry-Bodied Stoneware (1998), fig. 320
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.470&A-1967

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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