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Worcester Baluster-Form Coffee Pot and Cover

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1770

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.154

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a Worcester baluster-form coffee pot (A) and cover (B) colorfully painted on either side with a man walking before a tall table and budding shrubbery and bringing a floral bouquet to a mustachioed Chinese man and his attendant standing at a marble-topped table set with a dish of finger citrons. The rim has an underglaze blue demi-flowerhead, trefoil, and dotted tassel border. The cover has three Chinese ladies at various pursuitrs between an underglaze blue scallop-and-dot border around the iron-red and green floral sprig knop and a cell diaper border around the gilt-edged rim. The cover is possibly married and there are chips on the knop and beneath the rim.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II