Description:
English creamware baluster-shaped coffee pot, which is part of a partial coffee and tea service (with coffee pot, cream pot, tea canister, 10 teacups and 10 saucers) decorated with transfer printed designs in black of the "Liverpool Birds" or “Exotic Birds” enhanced with green enamels and cold gilding. While these pieces are unmarked, Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) employed this popular print on numerous examples of his creamware. John Sadler and Guy Green of Liverpool reproduced this print for Wedgwood as early as 1761 in various adaptations, copying similar designs from porcelain factories such as Sèvres, Worcester, and Meissen. Guy Green agreed that he would print exclusively on Josiah Wedgwood's creamware so while it is possible that the set represents the work of Wedgwood and Green, it may also be a rival's manufacture. The pot (no footrim) has an attached rib-molded spout and entwined strap handles with leafy terminals; the domed lid has a molded flower finial and transfer printed butterflies and moths that are enamelled in green and gold. According to Wedgwood scholar Robin Reilly, patterns of this type were transfer printed on creamware by Sadler & Green for Wedgwood. "'Birds' are first noted as being drawn for engraving in August 1763 and were in production in black or red by the following year. Renamed 'Liverpool Birds', these and similar engravings have been regularly in production...for more than 200 years."
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