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Pot, coffee
Coffee pot, hard-paste porcelain, pear-shaped body with short foot-rim, beak spout ornamented with moulded scrolls around the base, wish-bone handle with scale moulding along its length; decorated in polychrome enamels with to either side of the body panels finely painted with a coastal landscapes featuring figures and shipping, the landscapes framed by rococo scrolls and diaper patterns in soft blue enamel and gilt, around the rest of the exterior sides scattered floral sprigs, a gilt edge to the lip-rim, the spout and handle picked out in gilt.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36397
Creation/Production
Höchst Porcelain Factory
Date: 1755-1765
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 18.5
diam
(cm): 11.8
Width
(cm): 16
Height
(in): 7
diam
(in): 4
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
extruded
forming
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assembled
forming
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press-moulded
forming
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enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
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glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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