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Coffee can: C.104-1918

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Maker(s)

Factory: Chamberlain's Worcester Porcelain Factory

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Description

Porcelain coffee can, decorated with a dark green enamel ground, painted onglaze with a young Flora and flowers in polychrome enamels, and gilt.

Porcelain coffee can, decorated with a dark green enamel ground, painted onglaze in coloured enamels, and gilt. The can is of cylindrical shape, with a ring handle. It is painted with a central rectangular panel of a young nymph depicting Flora, reserved against a dark green ground painted in pale green camaieu with poppies, narcissi and other garden flowers, between gilt bands; the interior has a border of palmettes in gilding above a wide band of burnished gilt.

Legal notes

Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA

Measurements and weight

Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 6.5 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Worcester ⪼ Worcestershire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA

Dating

19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa 1814 - 1816

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( polychrome) gold

Materials used in production

Glaze
Porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating) : Porcelain decorated with a dark green enamel ground, painted onglaze in coloured enamels, and gilt

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Chamberlain's Worcester & 63 Piccadilly London
  • Location: Base
  • Method of creation: Painted in sepia enamel
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Flora
  • Location: Base
  • Method of creation: Painted in sepia enamel
  • Type: Inscription

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.104-1918
Primary reference Number: 37402
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 3 May 2012 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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