IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 226132 accession number: C.15.1-5-2018 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 18 December 2018 updated: Monday 15 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Coffee set comprising coffee pot (C.15.1 & A-2018), milk jug (C.15.2-2018), sugar basin (C.15.3-2018) and a pair of coffee cans with saucers (C.15.4 & A-2018, C.15.5 & A-2018). Coffee can: small but tall, with straight sides tapering slightly towards the rim, a tall spout and loop handle; conical lid with central knob. Milk jug with straight sides tapering slightly towards the rim, with lip and loop handle. Sugar basin with slightly flared straight sides. Coffee cans with straight sides and loop handles, sitting on round saucers with straight, upturned side rims. The set decorated with a fruit and floral pattern surrounded by a rich red colour; the insides a deep blue, excepting the coffee pot which has a sea green interior. The undersides of the saucers coloured and glazed, the other pieces unglazed. object type: Earthenware decorated with under glaze colours. title: coffee service NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor, Mrs Thelma Marks LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Thelma Marks STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/226132 TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, in two parts, painted underglaze hand building TECHNIQUES ---------- painting underglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: Art Pottery DATING ------ creation date: 1930 - 1940 creation date earliest: 1930 creation date latest: 1940 culture: 20th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Moorcroft, William maker: Moorcroft Pottery CITATIONS -------- William Moorcroft and Walter Moorcroft, 1897-1973 : catalogue of an exhibition of pottery at the Fine Art Society, 4 December to 15 December 1973 at 148 New Bond Street, London W.1 Guide to Moorcroft Pottery 1897-1993 Liberty’s 1875-1975: An exhibition to mark the firm’s centenary ---