Coffee pot: C.595 & A-1928

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

Entities

• Coffee pot
• Cover

Categories

• Stoneware
• White salt-glazed stoneware

Description

White salt-glazed stoneware painted in polychrome enamels with a Chinoiserie garden scene

White stoneware, thrown, and moulded, salt-glazed, and painted in blue, green, pink, red, greyish-purple, and brownish-red enamels, and gilt. The pot has a tapering cylindrical body, a reeded strap handle with a kick at its base applied to one side, and applied at right angles to it, an upward curving spout with shell moulding on its underside. The domed cover has a flange on the underside which fits inside the neck of the pot. and on top, a squat vase-shaped knob. The side of the pot between the handle and spout is decorated with a man in Oriental costume standing beside a flowering tree. A bird stands below the spout, and on the other side is a basket of mixed flowers supported on a low mound. Round the neck there is a border of alternating panels of red trellis diaper pattern and a flower on a blue ground. On each side of the spout there is a green leaf and two simple flowers outlined in dark red. The handle has a vertical blue stripe down its middle. The cover is decorated with a man flanked by flowering shrubs, surrounded by a pink hatched border. A pair of red circles surround the junction of the knob, and it has another pair round its summit.

Notes

History note: Mrs Cater, Colchester; from whom bought for £100 on April 26 916 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
George II or George III
Circa 1755 - 1765

Note

Enamelled decoration on salt-glazed stoneware was introduced in north Staffordshire about 1750. The decoration of this pot was inspired by Chinese famille rose porcelain.

School or Style

Rococo
Chinoiserie
famille rose