Coffee pot

3D Model

A pear-shaped pot with an isolated base. Its deeply bent spout is set on a raised mascaron. Its handle in the shape of the letter “J” is ornamented with volutes at the top and the bottom, as well as raised leaves and palmettes on the outside. The pot has a domed cap with a collar. The painting style consists of casually laid out flowers and realistically depicted insects with shadows painted grey. This kind of decoration, popular in the 1730s, was the first typically European style of porcelain painting. Designs of flowers, fruit and insects were drawn from botanical pattern books, hence their name “graphic flowers”.

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Inventory number: ZKWawel 7525/1-2

Location of the physical object: Wawel Royal Castle – National Art Collection, Kraków, Poland

Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolski Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland