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Pot, coffee and cover
Coffee pot and cover, hard-paste porcelain, ovoid-shaped body with a high neck that has concave sides and with a flattened collar that has a small vertical rim, circular spreading foot, loop handle with thumb rest and scroll terminal, curved spout terminating in a Griffin mask, flat cover with cone finial; gold bands decorate the base and foot and neck and rim of the pot and the rim of the cover, the base and the neck of the pot and the cover are decorated with a gold wheatsheaf border, the top of the pot is banded with a continuous gilt leaf border, the top half of the finial is gilded.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 38789
Creation/Production
Limoges
Date: 1773-1800
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 25.3
diam
(cm): 12.1
l(cm) handle to handle:19.6
l(cm)
Height
(in): 10
diam
(in): 4
l(in) handle to spout:7 3/4
l(in)
Techniques
moulded
forming
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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