Description: This coffeepot is typical of inexpensive, Neoclassical-style ceramics imported from England into the Connecticut River Valley at the end of the 18th century. The fluting on the pot and the meandering vine and swag border resembles more expensive English porcelains such as those produced at New Hall Factory. Large, pearlware coffee pot with domed lid with pointed ball finial and engine turned fluting, body of pot is an elongated bellied form with engine turned fluting, attached strap handle, and molded and attached s-shaped spout, circular applied foot, lid and pot are decorated in high temperature, underglaze oxide colors (Pratt colors), the decoration consists of swags of blue woven with a brown sprigs, there is a suggestion of a brown shell edge to the edge of the lid and top edge of the coffee pot, also there are random brown sprigs of leaves on the pot body, there is a brown band along the top of the foot rim, the whole is covered in a slightly bluish lead glaze.
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