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Coffee pot: C.13 & A-1950

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Factory: Felice Clerici

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Description

Maiolica coffee pot and cover, painted onglaze in enamels with sprays of flowers.

Cream earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted onglaze in blue, green, yellow, dark purplish-pink, and brown enamels, with restoration in pale pink.
Piriform with lightly lobed and fluted sides, spout in the shape of a griffin's head, and S-shaped handle moulded with scrolls above and below a central knop. The domed cover has a bud finial and an internal flange fitting inside the neck of the pot.
On each side of the body there is a spray of flowers, beneath the spout a small spray, and on the handle side, four smaller ones. On one side there is an insect near the rim. The spout is coloured overall in yellow, green and brown, and the beak is outlined in dark purplish-pink. The rim is encircled by a brown line. The scrolls on the handle are outlined in dark pink. The cover is decorated with two floral sprays. Its rim is outlined in dark pink and there are touches of dark pink on the finial.

Notes

History note: Unknown before donor

Legal notes

Given by H.E. Backer

Measurements and weight

Height: 20.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1950) by Backer, H.E.

Dating

18th Century
Circa 1760 CE - 1770 CE

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in blue, green, yellow, dark purplish-pink, and brown enamels, with restoration in pale pink)
Foot Diameter 8.5 cm
Widest Width 16.2 cm

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Cream earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted onglaze in blue, green, yellow, dark purplish-pink, and brown enamels, with restoration in pale pink.
Tin-glazing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.13 & A-1950
Primary reference Number: 71753

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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