Coffee Pot and Cover
ca. 1780-1800 (made)
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Coffee pot and cover of hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted with red enamel and underglaze blue, and touched with gold. Decorated in Japanese Kakiemon style after Meissen porcelain.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain moulded, painted with red enamel and underglaze blue, and touched with gold |
| Brief description | Coffee pot and cover of hard-paste porcelain, Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, ca. 1780-1800. |
| Physical description | Coffee pot and cover of hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted with red enamel and underglaze blue, and touched with gold. Decorated in Japanese Kakiemon style after Meissen porcelain. |
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| Credit line | Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support |
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| Bibliographic reference | Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia ed. With Balleri, Rita and Rucellai, Oliva, ‘Amici di Doccia Quaderni, Numero VII, 2013, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection’, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2014
p. 82, Cat. 60
60. Coffee pot and cover with oriental decoration
1780-1800
hard-paste porcelain with tin-glaze painted in
colours and gold
h 23,5 cm
no mark
inv. C.619&A-1922
gift: Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO through The Art Fund
A coffee pot and sugar bowl with an oriental floral decoration in blue, red and gold. The decoration has numerous freely interpreted oriental elements: two flowering vines that end in a kiku, or chrysanthemum flower in red and climbing on a taihu or rock in blue, a hint of a fence, perhaps recalling an “enclosed garden”. There are several possible sources that the painters at Doccia might have used for this decoration: the Arita Japanese porcelain of the early 18th century (L.ZENONE PADULA, in VIAGGIO INOCCIDENTE 1992, p. 263, cat. 96), Chinese porcelain of the Quing dynasty (L. ZENONE PADULA, in VIAGGIO IN OCCIDENTE 1992, p. 176, cat. 31 and p. 185, cat. 41), or the copies of these that were being produced by many European manufacturers of maiolica and porcelain. The shape of the sugar bowl and the coffee pot, in particular, its flat cover and simple decoration and the presence of masso bastardo (see formasso bastardo cat. 63) as the ceramic material, suggest a date to the final years of the 18th century.
A.B.
Bibliography: unpublished |
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| Accession number | C.619&A-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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