IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71261 accession number: C.1067 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 17 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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. title: coffee pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Freeman's sale, Cambridge 27 January 1904; purchased for £3.10s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71261 PEOPLE ------------------- Willem V (1748-1806) SUBJECTS ------------------- coffee drinking CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: creamware category: Dutch-decorated creamware DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Leeds Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 28 dimension: Width units: cm value: 23.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Black Atlantic: Power | People | Resistance CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance Oranje op aardewerk, Van Willem de Zwijger tot Koningin Beatrix Creamware The Leeds Pottery 1770-1881 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1067_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1067_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1067_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1067_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1067_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1067_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1067_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1067_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels