Coffee pot: C.16.1 & A-2009

Current Location: In storage

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Description

Bone china with pale yellow glaze, decorated in royal blue and yellow, and gilt. Part of coffee set C.16.1-5-2009

Bone china, slip-cast, with clear and pale yellow glazes, decorated in royal blue and yellow, and gilt. Urn-shaped with shallow incurved shoulder, tall curving spout, and loop handle, standing on a low foot. The cover has an oval ring handle. The exterior is glazed pale yellow and is painted (probaby) below the shoulder with geometrical-cum-star motifs in Art Deco style. The outer edges of the handle and knob are entirely gilded, there is a gold line down each side of the spout, and a wide gold band and a narrow gold band round the edges of the foot.

Notes

History note: Given to Ernest and Freda Walton as a wedding present in 1934 by John and Elizabeth Cockcroft

Legal notes

Given by the Walton Family

Measurements and weight

Height: 18 cm
Width: 17.1 cm

Relative size of this object

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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.