Coffeepot

MakerPossibly made by Staffordshire potteries (English, 17th century-present)

Dateabout 1825-1845

MediumMechanically-molded buff-colored earthenware with a blue-tinted glaze and underglaze cobalt blue decoration

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height including lid x width x depth): 11 x 8 x 5in. (27.9 x 20.3 x 12.7cm)

ClassificationsCeramics

Credit LineBequest of George Dudley Seymour

Object number1945.1.1494a-b

DescriptionTall, round coffeepot with domed lid, made of buff-colored earthenware with a blue-tinted glaze, a type of ceramic known as pearlware. A pattern and border are transfer-printed on the coffeepot in underglaze blue. The pattern, repeated six times on the outside of the coffeepot, shows a farmer kneeling at the base of a tree. He holds a pair of shears in his right hand and is clipping the wool on a sheep to his left side. The tree and farmer sit on a hill that overlooks a range of three mountains and a house sitting in a grove of trees. The house has a thatched, hipped roof and one window. The pulled handle and molded spout on the coffeepot are decorated with printed blue and white flowers. There is a line of hand-painted underglaze blue at the foot of the coffeepot and the rim of the lid. A border, found at the rim of the coffeepot, and circling the lid, consists of blue and white flowers and leaves on a field of light blue. The house, from the pattern on the teapot, is printed on the small, round finial at the top of the lid. The lid also has a hole to allow steam to escape. There is light crazing over many of the surfaces of the coffeepot and handle, and three short hairline cracks that begin at the rim and run down the coffeepot.

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