IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140372 accession number: C.9 & A-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 20 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, glazed and decorated with painting in blue, green, yellow, pale and dark purple, red, and black enamels, purple lustre, and gilding. The pear-shaped pot has a projecting lip, a scroll handle, and a low foot. Its high domed cover has a hole to emit steam, and a conical button knob. On each side there is a panel framed by scrollwork in gold with small areas of lustre, iron-red and purple enamel, and with panels of trellis diaper pattern. Within each panel there is a polychrome Chinoiserie scene. One shows two Chinese figures, one stirring a large bowl over a fire, beside a vase of flowers. The other has a man cooking, watched by another standing holding a banner, and a smaller figure with a basket. There are 'Indian' flowers in the spaces between the panels, and down the back of the handle. There is a gold band round the foot, touches of gold on the handle, and elaborate gold scrollwork on the neck and lip. The cover is decorated with a continuous scene of Chinese figures in a garden. There are gold bands round the rim, and knob, the top of which is also gilded. title: coffee pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before Sir Richard Jessel LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Sir Richard Jessel STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140372 PEOPLE ------------------- Chinese man Chinese boy SUBJECTS ------------------- vase flower vase flower TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, glazed, and decorated with painting in enamels, purple lustre, and gilding glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1725 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1725 creation date latest: 1730 culture: 1720s culture: 18th Century, second quarter# culture: Frederick Augustus I CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16