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Coffee pot imitating European silver, hard paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue. Decorated with Hō-ō (phoenixes) amongst shrubbery.
The pot is lacking the cover and spigot.
On loan from Douglas and Mary Barrett
Diameter: 15.4 cm
Height: 24.4 cm
Length: 19 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Loan
(1995)
by
Barrett, Douglas and Mary
Underglaze colour Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: BL.4-1995
Primary reference Number: 140087
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Coffee pot"
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