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Coffee pot
Production: Leeds Pottery (Probably)
Creamware painted in enamels on one side with a festooned medallion enclosing a bust portrait of William V of Orange, and on the other side with a similar medallion enclosing a harbour scene; smaller medallions of harbour scenes adorn the cover which has a flower knob.
Cream-coloured earthenware thrown, with applied moulded spout, and handle, lead-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, red, pale to dark manganese-purple, and black enamels. The pear-shaped pot has a long curved spout with fluted foliage around its lower part, and a loop handle in the form of two interlaced reeded bands with floral terminals at the upper and lower ends. There is a large circular hole in the side behind the spout to emit the coffee. The high domed cover has a ventilation hole, and a knob in the shape of a flower (rose?) with three tiers of petals on a stalk with three leaves. One side of the pot is decorated with a bust portrait of William V of Orange in profile to left, in an oval medallion with a dark red ground and a yellow border, surrounded by festoons of roses and laurel-wreaths. Above there is a small horizontal oval medallion enclosing a small harbour scene. On the other side is a similarly bedecked oval medallion enclosing a harbour-scene with three figures in the foreground. Above is a small horizontal oval medallion enclosing another scene and on the cover two vertical oval medallions with views of a ship and two figures on the shore.
History note: Mr Freeman's sale, Cambridge 27 January 1904; purchased for £3.10s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 28 cm
Width: 23.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1780
-
1790
This pot is an unusually well painted example of Dutch-decorated English creamware, much of which is painted with brightly-coloured outlined portraits of Prince Willem V of Orange (1748-1806) and his wife, Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820). See also C.1065 & A-1928 and C.1066-1928. The attribution to the Leeds Pottery, which operated from 1770, is not entirely certain. The decoration of the spout and handle illustrates the persistence of Rococo features on creamware after the Neoclassical style had become fashionable in the late eighteenth century.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Foot
Diameter 11.5 cm
Body
Handle Terminals
Spout
cream Earthenware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with dark blue line edging and in each of the cut corners a plant motif rather like a fleur-de-lys
Accession number: C.1067 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 71261
Old object number: 1932
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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