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Maker/s

Worcester Porcelain Factory (factory)

Vivarès, François after (engraver) [ULAN info: French/British artist, 1709-1780]

Category

soft-paste porcelain

Name

coffee pot

School/Style

Rococo

Description

Soft-paste porcelain coffee pot, transfer-printed in purple and painted onglaze in polychrome enamels with two scenes of classical ruins.

Soft-paste porcelain coffee-pot, transfer-printed in purple, and painted onglaze in yellow, green, brown and blue enamels, and gilt. The pear-shaped coffee-pot has a curved spout and S-scroll handle with scroll thumbpiece, standing on a low footring; the slightly domed cover is surmounted by a conical knob. The coffee pot is decorated on one side with classical ruins, the reverse with two figures crossing a bridge in a landscape dominated by a classical monument, the handle with two gilt trefoils and dots, the spout printed with rocaillerie.

Production Notes

The landscape with a bridge and fountain is after an engraving by François Vivares, published in 1752, after a painting of 1701 by Pierre Antoine Patel.

Production Place

Worcester (factory) (place)

Worcestershire (factory) (county)

England (factory) (country)

English (factory) (nationality)

France (engraver)

Technique Description

soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in purple, and painted onglaze in yellow, green, brown and blue enamels, and gilt

Dimensions

height: (whole): 20.2 cm
width: (whole): 16.5 cm

Period

third quarter of 18th century
George III

Date

circa 1765 to 1770

Provenance

bequeathed: Hadley, W.S. 1927-12-25 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection)

Bequeathed by W.S. Hadley

Documentation

1. Rackham, Bernard (1928) Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain, London
   [comments: Cf. A vase in the Schreiber Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in vol. I, no. 627, and pl. 70]
2. Leary, Emmeline (1976) Transfer-printed Worcester Porcelain at Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester: City of Manchester Cultural Services
   [comments: Cf. For a coffee pot of the same shape, with different prints, but with the same ornament on the spout, see no. 35]

Other Notes

Accession Number

C.34 & A-1927 (Applied Arts)
(Reference Number: 33058; Input Date: 2001-08-24 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

Related Object

C.35-1927