Factory: Neale & Co.
Bone china coffee can decorated with a pale blue ground, a framed landscape in polychrome enamels, and gilding
Bone china decorated with a very pale blue ground, painting in polychrome enamels and gilding. Cylindrical with a loop handle. On the front within a rectangular gold frame with trompe l’oeil beading is a landscape with a farmhouse on the left, a group of five cows in the middle beside a tree, and a stream on the right. On the sides and below the handle there is a pale blue ground with a top border of a wavy stem of gold leaves on a white ground with a gold horizontal line below, and a gold line round the lower edge. There are gold lines down the sides of the handle and seven stylized leaf motifs of graduated size and four small dots down its back.
History note: J. & J. Baker,[ now at 12-14 Water Street, Lavenham], from whom purchased on 18 December 1992 by Christopher Hogwood, CBE (1941-2014), Cambridge; purchased from his executors by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
From the collection of Christopher Hogwood. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Diameter: 6.1 cm
Height: 6.4 cm
Width: 8.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2015-04-27) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1785
CE
-
1790
CE
The coffee can is painted in the style of Derby porcelain with landscapes by Zachariah Boreman or John Brewer
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( pale blue, green, yellow, brown)
ground colour
( pale blue)
gold
Sides
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Inscription present: Rectangular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: Rectangular white stick-on label with another below it
Inscription present: Rectangular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: Circular white paper stick-on label hand-written in black ink ‘288’
Accession number: C.238-2015
Primary reference Number: 201324
Old object number: 288
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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