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Pot, coffee and cover
Coffee pot, black basalt, standing on a waisted spreading foot, roughly pear-shaped body with a broad band of vertical engine-turned reeding around the centre, plain curving spout, elongated ear-shaped handle with an applied leaf at the shoulder, round domed cover with vertical engine-turned reeding around the sides, to the top a finial modelled in the 'Widow of Zarapheth' form, (a seated female figure in flowing drapes and in a mourning attitude), a pierced steam hole to one side.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35940
Creation/Production
Clowes, W.
Date: 18th century (late)
Acquisition
Purchase, 1904
Measurements
Height
(cm): 25
diam
(cm): 11.5
Width
(cm): 19.7
Height
(in): 9
diam
(in): 4
Width
(in): 7
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
applied
decoration
Applied Art
engine-turned
decoration
Applied Art
Material
basalt
Location
In store
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