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Coffeepot

Dateca. 1800

Possibly by Leeds Pottery

OriginEngland, Staffordshire or Yorkshire

MediumFeldspathic stoneware

DimensionsOH: 12 5/8" (with lid); OL: 10 5/8" (handle to spout); OW: 6 1/4" (body at widest point).

Credit LineMuseum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections Fund

Object number2024-252,A&B

DescriptionCoffeepot: circular stepped and spreading foot supports the large baluster-shaped body, the lower third molded with basket pattern and the top third delineated by a band of laurel; the body bearing the Great Seal on one side and figures of Plenty and Commerce on the other. The angular double-C scroll handle molded with acanthus leaves and with an acanthus leaf thumb rest and kick; the handle opposite the modified S-shaped spout molded with a leaves and a basket weave. An open hole without a grate is at the spout and body juncture. The pot with a high-domed lid molded with a border of leaves and a basketweave pattern radiating from the upright ring knop with molded strap juncture; a steam hole on the top of the lid next to the finial. The body, lid, foot, handle and spout carefully picked out in a deep blue.
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Provenance2024, [David M. Kurau (Royersford, PA) Nov. 14-17, 2024, exhibited at the Delaware Antiques Show, Wilmington, DE]; December 2024, purchased by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA)