Coffee Pot
ca. 1740-1745 (made)
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Coffee pot and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Pear-shaped, with scroll-moulded funnel spout, moulded J-handle. High domed cover with pomegranate knob. Painted in colours with shipping on a rough sea near a rocky coast and a river landscape with figures near ruins, both within shaped cartouches of scrolls and panels of lattice and shell ornament in gold and black-brown. Gold lace at neck. Spout and knob gilt, handle partly gilt. Band of gilt edges. Scattered Holzschnitt blumen. The cover with two river scenes above two red lines.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Coffee pot and cover, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1740-45 |
| Physical description | Coffee pot and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Pear-shaped, with scroll-moulded funnel spout, moulded J-handle. High domed cover with pomegranate knob. Painted in colours with shipping on a rough sea near a rocky coast and a river landscape with figures near ruins, both within shaped cartouches of scrolls and panels of lattice and shell ornament in gold and black-brown. Gold lace at neck. Spout and knob gilt, handle partly gilt. Band of gilt edges. Scattered Holzschnitt blumen. The cover with two river scenes above two red lines. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs Herbert Allen |
| Object history | Part of a tea and coffee service, C.36 to 39-1922. |
| 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.37&A-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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