Coffee Pot and Lid
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Earthenware
DATES
ca. 1825–1835
DIMENSIONS
6 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (15.2 x 14 x 14 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
One indistinguishable dark blue transfer-printed letter or number on bottom of base.
SIGNATURE
no signature
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
64.82.240a-b
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Estate of Emily Winthrop Miles
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Glazed earthenware coffee pot (a) and lid (b) with dark blue transfer-printed underglaze decoration. Bulbous body raised on foot rim; sectioned at collar which tapers in then flares out again to top opening; attached curving spout and opposing ear-shaped handle. Lid is round and slightly domed, fits within opening of coffee pot, finial in form of beehive. Covered all-over with blue decorations of flowers and leaves; on each side of body, landscape scene with George Washington standing at a tomb with a scroll in hand, ships on water in background.
Source of view:
Condition: Good. Coffee Pot (a) rim worn on bottom. Scratches in outer right side center of design. Lid (b) chip on outer rim and small scrapes and worn spots.
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Enoch Wood & Sons (active 1818–1846). Coffee Pot and Lid, ca. 1825–1835. Earthenware, 6 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (15.2 x 14 x 14 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Emily Winthrop Miles, 64.82.240a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 64.82.240a-b_PS1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 64.82.240a-b_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2005
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