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Factory: Felice Clerici
Maiolica coffee pot and cover, painted onglaze in enamels with sprays of flowers.
Cream earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted onglaze in blue, green, yellow, dark purplish-pink, and brown enamels, with restoration in pale pink.
Piriform with lightly lobed and fluted sides, spout in the shape of a griffin's head, and S-shaped handle moulded with scrolls above and below a central knop. The domed cover has a bud finial and an internal flange fitting inside the neck of the pot.
On each side of the body there is a spray of flowers, beneath the spout a small spray, and on the handle side, four smaller ones. On one side there is an insect near the rim. The spout is coloured overall in yellow, green and brown, and the beak is outlined in dark purplish-pink. The rim is encircled by a brown line. The scrolls on the handle are outlined in dark pink. The cover is decorated with two floral sprays. Its rim is outlined in dark pink and there are touches of dark pink on the finial.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by H.E. Backer
Height: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1950) by Backer, H.E.
18th Century
Circa
1760
CE
-
1770
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in blue, green, yellow, dark purplish-pink, and brown enamels, with restoration in pale pink)
Foot
Diameter 8.5 cm
Widest
Width 16.2 cm
Moulding
: Cream earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted onglaze in blue, green, yellow, dark purplish-pink, and brown enamels, with restoration in pale pink.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.13 & A-1950
Primary reference Number: 71753
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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