Coffee pot
Weesper porseleinfabriek
c. 1759 - c. 1771
Medium
painting technique
Dimensions
23
About this artwork
height 23 cm
Art Historical Context
This elegant coffee pot, crafted by the Weesper porinfabriek around 9–1771, at a graceful 23 tall, embodying the refined of 18th-century porcelain production. The Weesp factory, located near Amsterdam, was a key player in the Netherlands' faience and soft-paste porcelain industry, emerging during a time when European makers sought to rival expensive Chinese imports. Coffee pots like this one were not just functional vessels but symbols of emerging middle-class sophistication, as coffee drinking swept through Dutch society in the Enlightenment era. The pot's medium highlights a "painting techn...