coffee-pot
- Museum number
- 1887,0210.162
- Description
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Coffee-pot and cover; salt-glazed white stoneware; hexagonal, tapering from base to rim; ornamented with devices, arms, and grotesque subjects in panels with cable borders; first, a boy and man with a ball, a camel; second, a stagged shield, a double-headed eagle, birds, cupids flanking a crowned altar; third, human heads and torsos, a fox and crane, a trumpeting Cupid on a lion; fourth, a shepherd with a dog, a bird perching on a disk in a plant; fifth, a semi-nude female, a unicorn, heads and torsos flanking a fruit basket; sixth, birds above a lion; below rim and on cover a band of masks; octagonal spout and fluted handle.
- Production date
- 1745 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.70 inches (base)
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Height: 8.50 inches
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1887,0210.162
