coffee pot



coffee pot

Summary

Public: Pear-shaped coffee pot with cauliflower moulding, cream coloured earthenware, lead glaze stained green for leaves around lower body and on spout and handle. Private: Pear-shaped coffee pot on flat spreading foot, tapering to tall cylindrical neck, with ribbed S-shaped spout moulded with leafy details at base and rim, and scroll loop handle in the form of three overlapping ribbed and leafy stems with spurs at thumbrest and lower terminal. Cream coloured body vigorously moulded in relief with cauliflower florets around neck and two rows of four large textured leaves, curled at the edges, around lower body. Lead glaze coloured green on leaves, handle and spout, reserving cream coloured cauliflower florets and interior. High domed cover with flattened rim and restoration budding finial, moulded with six radiating cauliflower leaves coloured green, white florets between the leaves at rim. Small hole pierced to side of finial.

Display Label

Sugar bowls of the 1700s are large because they held grape sized lumps of sugar broken off from a sugar loaf. Loose, granulated sugar was not commercially available.


Object Name

coffee pot

Date Created

1760=1780 (circa)

Dimensions

without cover: 19.7cm x 19.3cm
with cover: 25.4

accession number

1923.658

Place of creation

Staffordshire

Medium

On Display

[G19] Manchester Art Gallery - Gallery 19 (Design Gallery)
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Credit

Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg

Legal

© Manchester Art Gallery


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