IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140201 accession number: C.3 & A-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 4 June 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, glazed and decorated with painting in polychrome enamels, purple lustre, and gilding. The pot is pear-shaped with a projecting lip, scroll handle, and low foot. Its high domed cover has a conical button knob. There is a hole in the top of the cover to emit steam. On each side of the pot there is an approximately oval panel framed by scrollwork in gold with small areas of lustre, and iron-red and brown enamel. Within each frame there is a polychrome Chinoiserie subject. One shows a Chinese man and a woman in a garden; the other, a Chinese man holding a tray, accompanied by a dwarf, flanked by furniture and a plant. A bird flies overhead. In the spaces outside the panels there are insects and 'Indian' flowers, the latter also painted down the back of the handle. There are gold bands round the foot and rim, touches of gold on the handle, and elaborate scrollwork round the neck and lip. The cover is painted in polychrome with a Chinese man kneeling by a pot on a stove, separated by plants from a dog and a dragon. There are gold bands round the rim and knob, the top of which is also gold. object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels with Chinoiserie scenes in panels, lustred, and gilt. title: coffee pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before Sir Richard Jessel LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Sir Richard Jessel STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140201 PEOPLE ------------------- Chinaman Chinese woman dwarf SUBJECTS ------------------- dog dragon stove dog dragon stove CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1725 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1725 creation date latest: 1730 culture: 1720s CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21 CITATIONS -------- European Ceramics British and Continental Ceramics and Glass including Paperweights ---