Coffee Pot
ca. 1712-1715 (made)
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Coffee pot with cover of red brown stoneware, after a Turkish metal model. Curved spout springing from a fish head, lower part bowl shaped, upper part tapering to neck. Handle lost and replaced with wood and gilt metal. Engraved high cover lost and replaced with a low Böttger stoneware cover after a Chinese model. Relief moulded in panels alternately plain and with diaper ornament, the plain panels wheel-polished.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Böttger red stoneware with relief moulded decoration and partly wheel-polished |
| Brief description | Coffee pot with cover, Böttger red stoneware, partly wheel-polished, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1712-15 |
| Physical description | Coffee pot with cover of red brown stoneware, after a Turkish metal model. Curved spout springing from a fish head, lower part bowl shaped, upper part tapering to neck. Handle lost and replaced with wood and gilt metal. Engraved high cover lost and replaced with a low Böttger stoneware cover after a Chinese model. Relief moulded in panels alternately plain and with diaper ornament, the plain panels wheel-polished. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A line crossed by two short strokes (Impressed, mark of the thrower Johann Christoph Krumbholz (active 1712-19)) |
| Credit line | Given by Mrs Herbert Allen |
| Object history | Formerly Joseph Marryat Collection. |
| 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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| Accession number | C.34&A-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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