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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18th Century Artist/Maker Date Department English Fitz_AA Georgian Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Predominant Colours Staffordshire Pottery Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd chocolate chocolate pot cocoa cover domed domes dry bodied stoneware handled hot chocolate knob lidded plain pot pot lid pottery red service ware serving piece spout spouted stoneware tableware thrown turned vessel

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