Description:
English soft-paste porcelain coffeepot decorated with a blue transfer print with the "birds in a branch" pattern and marked with a blue "C" on the flat base (glaze wiped free off foot rim), which was made by Worcester Porcelain. Exacavations at Worcester show that underglaze blue designs became predominent around 1775. Both sides of the tall, pear-shaped body are decorated with two birds flying overhead three birds perched on a scrolling tree branch and a country landscape below the branch. The pot has a molded S-shaped spout and scrolled handle opposite the spout, with an upturned thumb grip and small bud terminal and decorated with small floral sprigs. The domed lid has a leaning flower finial with two molded leaves and flared rim, decorated with two birds perched on a branch and a bird flying overhead. During their visit on May 13, 2010, members of the English Ceramic Circle suggested that work by the English artist Francis Barlow (1626-1704) may have provided the print source for this design.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+87.029 |
