Coffee pot, hard-paste porcelain, pear-shaped body with beak spout and double scroll handle, round domed cover with a ball finial; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the body a landscape featuring architectural ruins and figures, two smaller landscapes around the sides of the cover, around the rest of the body and the cover scattered floral sprigs, gilt scroll borders around the rims of the coffee pot and cover, the spout, handle and finial picked out in gilt.
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Creation/Production
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Brunswick, Germany
Period: 1760 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 23.8
diam
(cm): 10
Width
(cm): 16.2
Height
(in): 9
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
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Assembled
Forming
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Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
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Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Material
Hard-paste porcelain