- Museum number
- P268A
P268B - Object
- Coffee pot and cover, Chelsea Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, 1745-1749
- Description
- Coffee pot and cover, English, Chelsea, 1745-9.Soft-paste porcelain with moulded relief decoration, translucent glaze. The pot with white fluted pear-shaped body with scroll handle, octagonal base, the body decorated with spiral sprays of the flowering tea plant; the cover domed and decorated in similar manner, gadrooned knop.
- Materials
- Pottery - Porcelain
- Inscription
- Incised triangle.
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- Ceramic
Lid - Subject
- Floral
- Dimensions
- regular: 22.86cm (w)
Coffee pot
Chelsea Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain, between 1745 and 1749
P268
Bequest of James Calder, 1944
Plants and flowers were a major source of inspiration for the designers of eighteenth-century porcelain. They were painted in underglaze blue, brightly coloured overglaze enamels or gleaming gold. In naturalistic rococo pieces moulded flowers and leaves form decorative finials, handles and even entire objects.
Blanc de Chine is a type of white Chinese porcelain made at Dehua in Fujian province. Large quantities were exported to Europe. The raised flowering plum (prunus) motif was much copied by the English factories.
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