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Pot, coffee and cover
Coffee pot, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a rounded spreading foot-rim, pear-shaped body, triangular beak spout, high loop handle, round domed cover with to the centre a finial modelled in the form of an apple with a stem and leaf; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior body of the coffee pot and the top of the cover sprays and sprigs of roses and cornflowers, around the exterior neck of the coffee pot and the sides of the cover a gilt trellis border interspersed with painted pearls, narrow gilt lines around the foot-rim, lower body and exterior lip-rim of the coffee pot and around the rim of the cover, the spout, handle and finial picked out in gilt.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35957
Creation/Production
Niderviller Porcelain Factory
Date: 1780 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 23.5
diam
(cm): 12.5
Width
(cm): 16.9
Height
(in): 9
diam
(in): 4
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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