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Earthenware coffee service comprising six cups and saucers, six side plates, sugar bowl, milk jug, two serving plates, and a lidded coffee pot, all decorated with a matt brown glaze and printed overglaze in black with stylized swans, fish, birds, plants and the tree of life. Sugar bowl, milk jug and tray on display.
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SHAPES: Earthenware coffee service comprising six coffee cups and saucers, six side plates, milk jug, sugar bowl, coffee pot and two serving plates. Straight sided circular cups, sugar bowl and milk jug, slightly wider at rim than base, and milk jug and cups with a simple loop handle. Lip of jug rises about 25mm above the main rim. Conical coffee pot with simple loop handle, straight tapering spout, and circular lid surmounted by knob. Knob has a stem flaring outwards, topped by a flat disc, slightly indented in the middle. Rectangular serving plate is ocatngonal with flared sides, and flattened integral handles. PATTERNS: All pieces are decorated with a matt brown glaze with a black printed overglaze pattern. (a) In the well of serving plates are two circles, one containing a bird and plant, the other containing a fanciful building resembling a castle; inbetween the circles are two arcs of fish scale patterning. In the each corner is a flowering plant motif with borders of of black triangles running along the sides and the handles. (b) The plates and saucers are all decorated in the centre with a flower inbetween two swans, one large, one small. This image is encircled by two geometric borders, the interior border composed of radiating triangles, the exterior border of linked arrow heads. (c) Cups are decorated with a frieze-like pattern of swans swimming on water, and fish swimming under water, with water weed on the water bed. Triangle pattern border around rim. (d) Pattern on bowl is almost identical to cups, but is divided into two panels separated by a flowering plant. (e) Similar decoration on jug but swans vary in size and face both ways. There are also several very small birds of a different type, and flowering plants grow up from the water. (f) Coffee pot is decorated on both sides of the shoulder with a pattern composed of a tree of life motif, a large and a small swan and a flower. It is encircled around the base by a border of clumps of grass and small birds. Border of small triangles runs just under the rim. Band of arrowheads encircles lid and there is a floral motif on the top of the knob.
Technique: slip-casting
Technique: matt glaze
Technique: printed overglaze
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
coffee service by Royal Worcester, Scottie Wilson, 1965, (1993.59/23). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.9694 | Go to resource |
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