Coffee can: C.238-2015

Maker(s)

Factory: Neale & Co.

Entities

• Coffee can
• coffee cup

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Bone china coffee can decorated with a pale blue ground, a framed landscape in polychrome enamels, and gilding

Bone china decorated with a very pale blue ground, painting in polychrome enamels and gilding. Cylindrical with a loop handle. On the front within a rectangular gold frame with trompe l’oeil beading is a landscape with a farmhouse on the left, a group of five cows in the middle beside a tree, and a stream on the right. On the sides and below the handle there is a pale blue ground with a top border of a wavy stem of gold leaves on a white ground with a gold horizontal line below, and a gold line round the lower edge. There are gold lines down the sides of the handle and seven stylized leaf motifs of graduated size and four small dots down its back.

Notes

History note: J. & J. Baker,[ now at 12-14 Water Street, Lavenham], from whom purchased on 18 December 1992 by Christopher Hogwood, CBE (1941-2014), Cambridge; purchased from his executors by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Legal notes

From the collection of Christopher Hogwood. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Place(s) associated

• Hanley ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2015-04-27) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Dating

18th Century, Late
George III
Circa 1785 CE - 1790 CE

Note

The coffee can is painted in the style of Derby porcelain with landscapes by Zachariah Boreman or John Brewer