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Coffee can: C.79-2010

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Factory: New Hall Porcelain Factory

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Description

Hard-paste porcelain bat-printed in black with a landscape on one side, and a barn or house on the other, with gold bands round the rim and lower part

Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, bat-printed onglaze in grey-black, and gilded. Cylindrical coffee can with ring handle. Decorated on one side with a landscape with trees and rocks, and on the other with a small barn or cottage flanked by trees. The former has a slightly yellowish tinge to the black round the lower part of the design. There is a gold band round the base, and round the rim there is a borader gold band with a narrow band immediately below it.

Notes

History note: Unknown before testator

Legal notes

Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 7 cm
Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 9 cm

Relative size of this object

9 cm6.5 cm What does this represent?

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.

Place(s) associated

  • Shelton ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.

Dating

Early 19th Century
George III
Production date: circa AD 1810

School or Style

Picturesque, the

Components of the work

Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( grey-black)

Materials used in production

presumed lead-glaze Glaze
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing : Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, glazed, bat-printed in grey-black, and gilded

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label

  • Text: I.D.7
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.79-2010
Primary reference Number: 177461
Entry form number: 1027
Old object number: I.D.7
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Sunday 21 March 2021

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Coffee can" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/177461 Accessed: 2023-04-02 07:46:06

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