Coffee can: C.237-2015

Awaiting location update

Maker(s)

Entities

Coffee can
coffee cup

Description

Soft-paste porcelain coffee can painted underglaze in blue with 'Lady and Servant' pattern

Soft-paste porcelain printed and painted underglaze in blue. Cylindrical with a loop handle which has a central vertical depression. The exterior is decorated with the ‘Lady and Servant’ pattern: a Chinese man and a woman standing in a garden beside small bushes with a tree and a fence between them. A group of five tiny birds fly over the man. A blue band runs round the inside of the rim.

Notes

History note: J. & J. Baker, probably the Lavenham firm, from whom purchased on 20 April 1992 by Christopher Hogwood, CBE (1941-2014), Cambridge; purchased from his executors by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Legal notes

Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 5.6 cm
Height: 68 cm
Width: 8.1 cm

Relative size of this object

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.