Chocolate pot and cover, Staffordshire factory

An image of Chocolate Pot. Unknown Staffordshire factory. Pear shaped body with projecting lip, and reeded loop handle, the domed lid having a smaller second lid fitting into an opening in the top. On the base, an imitation Chinese seal mark. Red dry-bodied stoneware, thrown and turned, height, whole, 21.5 cm, circa 1760.

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Chocolate Pot. Unknown Staffordshire factory. Pear shaped body with projecting lip, and reeded loop handle, the domed lid having a smaller second lid fitting into an opening in the top. On the base, an imitation Chinese seal mark. Red dry-bodied stoneware, thrown and turned, height, whole, 21.5 cm, circa 1760.

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Accession Number: C.450-1928; C.450 & A & B-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3D
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 778 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 78.99kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 45/1
Captured: 2014:05:15 15:18:30

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