New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Coffee Pot and Cover

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1770

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm)

Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II

Object numberL2005.10.109

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 2

DescriptionThis is a 'Ruins' and "The Two Bridges' Pattern Baluster-Form Coffee Pot (A) and Cover (B). Printed in sepia, enameled in green, yellow, iron-red, blue and rose and heightened in gilding on one side with two figures amidst classical ruins, on the reverse with a scne from a 1752 print by Vivares after Antoine Patel depicting two figures crossing a bridge with another beyond in a river landscape, on the spout with a rococo scroll device, and on the cover with two landscape vignettes flanking flanking the iron-red, yellow and green floral sprig knop, the S-scroll handles decorated with gilt foliate and dot motifs.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II