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Coffee can: C.238-2015

Object information

Awaiting location update

Maker(s)

Factory: Neale & Co.

Entities

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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

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 6.1 cm
Height: 6.4 cm
Width: 8.4 cm

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

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel ( pale blue, green, yellow, brown) ground colour ( pale blue) gold
Sides

Materials used in production

presumed lead-glaze Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: Rectangular white paper stick-on label

  • Text: D83/2 c 1785-90/Extremely/rare James/Neale porcelain
  • Location: On abse
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: Rectangular white stick-on label with another below it

  • Text: Possibly painted by Zacharia Bo[rman], see plate 74 Godden’s Staff Porcelain’
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: Rectangular white paper stick-on label

  • Text: £195.00
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: Circular white paper stick-on label hand-written in black ink ‘288’

  • Text: 288
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.238-2015
Primary reference Number: 201324
Old object number: 288
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 12 May 2015 Updated: Tuesday 19 May 2015 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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