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| Coffee Pot Bow Porcelain Factory, 1760 The Victoria & Albert Museum |
This ornate pot was for intended for making and serving coffee. In the Eighteenth Century, when this coffee
pot was made, coffee was usually drunk with milk, and often sweetened with
sugar. At the time, Britain was importing approximately 3,000,000 lbs of coffee
beans per annum, and nearly two-thirds of that came from plantations in the
West Indies with the remainder from Arabia.
Coffee pots very similar to this one were made at the Niderviller faïence factory in Lorraine on the edge of eastern France. This example, from c. 1760, was made in at the Bow Porcelain Factory, London. Both the Bow and Niderviller pieces were possibly copied from an original pot which was made at the Italian Doccia porcelain factory near Florence.
Coffee pots very similar to this one were made at the Niderviller faïence factory in Lorraine on the edge of eastern France. This example, from c. 1760, was made in at the Bow Porcelain Factory, London. Both the Bow and Niderviller pieces were possibly copied from an original pot which was made at the Italian Doccia porcelain factory near Florence.
The
Bow factory use a porcelain making technique which strengthened the material
with bone ash, making it suitable for tea- and table-wares. Bow was
primarily concerned with utilitarian wares, but every so often, they’d create a special luxury
piece like this one.
The
pot is baluster shaped and it is modeled with a Rococo scroll and shell
motif. The piece has been painted with
exotic birds; with scrolls picked out in puce, blue and gilding.
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