Coffeepot with "Hausmaler" Decor
date: label: Date
content: 1725–1735
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present
label: Gilder
content: Bartholomäus Seuter, German, 1676 - 1754
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pear-shaped, on rounded flaring circular foot; scrolled handle, simple triangular spout, domed cover with flat circular finial. Solid gilding on foot, handle, lip, edge of pot and of cover, and finial. Underglaze decoration of floral sprays and birds; overglaze gilding representing a Chinoiserie scene of figures in landscape. Edge of pot and of cover mounted in gilded brass (missing?).
place: label: Place
content: Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-665-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: coffeepot
label: Type
content: coffeepot
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, brass
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a,b: overall): 19 × 14 × 10 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 3 15/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a: pot): 15.2 × 14 × 6.5 cm (6 in. × 5 1/2 in. × 2 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam. (b: lid): 4.5 × 7 cm (1 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)