IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 201323 accession number: C.237-2015 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 12 May 2015 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain coffee can painted underglaze in blue with 'Lady and Servant' pattern title: coffee can NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201323 TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Seth Pennington's Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 5.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 68 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.1 CITATIONS -------- Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804 ---