coffee-pot

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Object Type
Museum number: Franks.115
Description: Coffee-pot and cover; porcelain; partly glazed, the rest white biscuit ware; figures of the four Muses in low relief; ribbed handle with moulded acanthus ornament, repeated on spout; flared-out foot; hollow base; maker's mark.
Producer name
Production date: 1790-1800
Production place: Factory in: Meissen
Materials
Technique: low relief; glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 6 centimetres (foot); Height: 14.80 centimetres (max; with cover); Width: 15.70 centimetres (incl. handle and spout)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This coffeepot maybe unfinished, compare with a group of cups and saucers with biscuit panels of neo-classical figures in bas relief after Wedgwood, in den Blaauwen, A.L., Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, 2000, cat. no. 266
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical deity; leaf
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: Franks.115

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