Coffeepot

English
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British, Level 3, South Wing

British, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Coffeepot

ca. 1750

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English

English

Creamware with colored glazes

Overall: 9 3/4 × 4 5/8 × 8 1/8 inches (24.8 × 11.7 × 20.6 cm) Overall (pot): 7 3/8 × 4 5/8 × 8 1/8 inches (18.7 × 11.7 × 20.6 cm) Overall (lid): 2 1/2 × 2 13/16 inches (6.4 × 7.1 cm)

Ceramics

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand F. Stetekluh

61.90

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Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Norman D. Jordan (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

November 1960, Archives of American Art auction sale

Eleanor and Ferdinand Stetekluh (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

English Pottery and Porcelain. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, cat. no. 99.

Hellman, Mimi. “Making Coffee at Home in America: Episodes in the Cultural History of Design.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, pp. 103–104.

You, Yao-Fen. “From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, pp. 31–33; 36 (ill); 128, cat. 26.

Gohmann, Joanna M. "Colonizing through Clay: A Case Study of the Pineapple in British Material Culture." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31, no. 1 (Fall 2018): 143–161, pp. 145–146 (ill.), 157–159.

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English, Coffeepot, ca. 1750, creamware with colored glazes. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand F. Stetekluh, 61.90.

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