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1—Staffordshire; 2—English, eighteen to twentieth centuries;3—English, blue printed ware, eighteenth to nineteenth centuries;4—Leeds, 1760–1790; 5—Staffordshire, nineteenth to twentiethcenturies | ||
Salt-Glaze Pot
Elers Ware Coffee Pot
Salt-Glaze Pot
POTS IN POTTERY AND PORCELAIN 18TH TO 20TH CENTURIESIllustrated, too, are some beautiful examples of the art of the potter, applied to coffee service, as found in the Metropolitan Museum, where they have been brought from many countries. Included are Leeds and Staffordshire examples of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; a Sino-Lowestoft pot of the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries; an Italian (capodimonte) pot of the eighteenth century; German pots of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; a Vienna coffee pot of the eighteenth century; a French (La Seine) coffee pot of 1774–1793, a Sèvres pot of 1792–1804; and a Spanish eighteenth-century coffee pot decorated in copper luster.
At the Metropolitan may be seen also Hatfield and Sheffield-plate pots of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and many examples of silver tea and coffee service and coffee pots by American silversmiths.
Silver Coffee Pots, Late Eighteenth Century
Left, 1776–77. Right, 1773–4.
Silver tea pots and coffee pots were few in America before the middle of the eighteenth century. Early coffee-pot examples were tapering and cylindrical in form, and later matched the tea pots with swelling drums, molded bases, decorated spouts, and molded lids with finials.
From notes by R.T. Haines Halsey and John H. Buck, collected by Florence N. Levy and woven into an introduction to the Metropolitan Museum's art exhibition catalog for the Hudson-Fulton celebration of 1909, we learn that: