Collections: Decorative Arts: Coffee Pot and Lid

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Coffee Pot and Lid

• Maker: Enoch Wood and Sons
• Medium: Earthenware
• Place Made: Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem, Staffordshire, England
• Dates: ca. 1825-1835
• Dimensions: 6 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (15.2 x 14 x 14 cm)
• Markings: One indistinguishable dark blue transfer-printed letter or number on bottom of base.
• Collections: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, American Landscape/Colony to Nation, 5th Floor
• Accession Number: 64.82.240a-b
• Credit Line: Gift of the estate of Emily Winthrop Miles
• Image: Overall, 64.82.240a-b_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2005
Enoch Wood and Sons. Coffee Pot and Lid, ca. 1825-1835. Earthenware, 6 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (15.2 x 14 x 14 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the estate of Emily Winthrop Miles, 64.82.240a-b (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 64.82.240a-b_PS1.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: Glazed earthenware coffee pot (a) and lid (b) with dark blue transfer-printed underglaze decoration. Bulbous body raised on foot rim; sectioned at collar which tapers in then flares out again to top opening; attached curving spout and opposing ear-shaped handle. Lid is round and slightly domed, fits within opening of coffee pot, finial in form of beehive. Covered all-over with blue decorations of flowers and leaves; on each side of body, landscape scene with George Washington standing at a tomb with a scroll in hand, ships on water in background. Condition: Good. Coffee Pot (a) rim worn on bottom. Scratches in outer right side center of design. Lid (b) chip on outer rim and small scrapes and worn spots.