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Kestrel Coffee Set

Coffee Pot
1932 (made)
Artist/Maker
Wood & Sons Ltd. (manufacturers)
Susie Cooper China Ltd. (decorating firm)
Cooper, Susie (designer)
Place of origin
Burslem (made)

Coffee pot with lid, from "Kestrel" Coffee Set, earthenware with banded, painted, and sgraffito decoration.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Tea, Coffee & Chocolate Wares
Tableware & Cutlery
Drinking
Object type
Coffee pot
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Coffee Pot Body
  • Coffee Pot Cover
TitleKestrel Coffee Set (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with banded, painted, and sgraffito decoration
Earthenware
Sgraffito
Painted
Brief description
Coffee pot with lid, from "Kestrel" Coffee Set, designed by Susie Cooper; decorated by the Susie Cooper Pottery, Burslem, using blanks made by Wood & Sons Ltd., 1932
Physical description
Coffee pot with lid, from "Kestrel" Coffee Set, earthenware with banded, painted, and sgraffito decoration.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.5cm (Note: Including Lid)
  • Width: 15.8cm (Note: Maximum)
  • Depth: 9.8cm (Note: Maximum)
Gallery label
(23/05/2008)
Part of Coffee set 'Kestrel'
Designed by Susie Cooper, Wood & Sons, for Susie Cooper Pottery Co., about 1932
Painted earthenware

C.127 &A, B, C, D, E-1985
Bibliographic references
  • Baker, Malcolm, and Brenda Richardson (eds.), A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: V&A Publications, 1999.
  • Adamson, Glenn, Martina Droth and Simon Olding (ed.s) Things of Beauty Growing British Studio Pottery. New Haven, London, 2017 p. 281
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.127&A-1985

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Record createdNovember 5, 2003
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O85178/kestrel-coffee-set-coffee-pot-cooper-susie/
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