coffee-pot
- Museum number
- Franks.6
- Description
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Coffee-pot and cover; unglazed dark brown stoneware; four-sided; scroll handle and spout of square section springing from dolphin's head; imitation Chinese seal mark on base.
- Production date
- 1710-1715
- Dimensions
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Height: 15.80 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Dawson 1985
The shape is listed in the factory's 1711 inventory, see Claus Bolz, 'Formen des Böttgersteinzeugs im Jahre 1711', Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, Nr. 96, March 1982, p. 17, Form 10 'hohes 4 Eckichtes Thee Krügel'.
The dark brown colour is not often found.
- Location
- On display (G46/dc16)
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Acquisition notes
- Labelled: 'Bought at Dresden 1839'
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Franks.6
