Coffeepot

between 1710 and 1715

Johann Friedrich Böttger, Artist Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Manufacturer

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Decorative Arts, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Coffeepot

Artwork Date between 1710 and 1715

Makers Johann Friedrich Böttger (Artist) German, 1682-1719 Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) German, founded 1710

Medium Stoneware, silver, and gold

Dimensions Overall: 7 × 3 3/4 × 5 3/8 inches (17.8 × 9.5 × 13.7 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Ruth Nugent Head Bequest Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1986.18

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Provenance

July 1, 1985, (Christie's, London, England) auction "Important Continental Ceramics," lot 220;
(Armin Allen, Inc., London, England);
1986-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Important Continental Ceramics. Sales cat., Christie's. London, July 1, 1985, lot no. 220.

Allen, Armin B. The Art of Design, 1575-1875. Three Hundred Years of Ornamental Drawings and Objects of Curiosity. Exh. cat. New York, 1985, no. 136 (ill.).

Darr, A. P. "European sculpture and decorative arts acquired by the Detroit Institute of Arts 1978-87," The Burlington Magazine 130 (June 1988), p. 497 (fig. 105) (ill.).

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., DIA. Detroit, 2016, p. 33; 46 (ill.); p. 131, cat. 41.

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Johann Friedrich Böttger; Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Coffeepot, between 1710 and 1715, stoneware, silver, and gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ruth Nugent Head Bequest Fund, 1986.18.