New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Three-Piece Coffee Set

Maker Andrew Fogelberg

CultureEnglish

Date1775

MediumSilver | Raffia

DimensionsOverall: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm)

InscribedCream Jug: fully marked under lip; Ffolkes family arms are engraved in a medallion at the waist.

Credit LineMuseum purchase with Funds Provided Anonymously by a Member of the Mowbray Arch Society

Object number92.40.2

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DescriptionThe cream jug is a vase-shape vessel standing on an applied foot, which is chased with acanthus leaves. It has an applied ear-shaped handle with a rolled over kick and raffia cover. The body is decorated with applied swags of laurel leaves joining ram's heads and a medallion with the engraved Ffolkes arms. The rim is beaded.

Published ReferencesGAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS, No. 1502 (March 1994), mentioned p. 87. Mark A. Clark, "A George III English Coffee Set,"_The Chrysler Museum Journal_ 1 (1994): 32.