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Sorrento, coffee service

Sorrento, coffee service
 (c. 1965)

Medium
earthenware
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of John Hinds, 2017
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
earthenware
Measurements
(a-b) 24.4 × 22.6 × 9.6 cm (overall) (coffee pot)
(c) 8.6 × 12.9 × 8.0 cm (milk jug)
(d-e) 10.5 × 8.1 cm diameter (overall) (sugar box)
Place/s of Execution
Staffordshire, England
Inscription
(a) impressed (inverted) in base u.c.: ENGLAND
printed (diagonally) in black on base c: Sorrento
impressed (inverted) in base l.c.: MYOTT / 24
(c) impressed (vertically) in base u.l.: 6
impressed (vertically) in base c.l.: ENGLAND
impressed (vertically) in base c.r.: MYOTT
(d) impressed in base u.c.: MYOTT
printed (vertically) in black on base c.: Sorrento
impressed in base l.c.: ENGLAND
impressed in base l.r.: 4
Accession Number
2017.546.a-e
Department
International Decorative Arts
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of John Hinds, 2017
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
(a-b) A tall cylindrical coffee pot with long out-curving spout and large loop handle. The white body is decorated on one side with a painterly design of fruits and leaves in autumnal colours. The lid is glazed in a solid drab green colour. (c) A spouted, cylindrical milk jug with loop handle. The white body is decorated on one side with a painterly design of fruits and leaves in autumnal colours. (d-e) A cylindrical lidded sugar box. The white body is decorated on one side with a painterly design of fruits and leaves in autumnal colours. The lid is glazed in a solid drab green colour.

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