Coffeepot

Provenance

Conrad collection [“4 Conrad” sticker on bottom]. Kate Foster, Rye, England [correspondence from Kate Foster to Doris and Stanford D. Marks, Jan. 25, 1988; in curatorial object file]. Christie's, Geneva, Nov. 9, 1987, lot 144. Kate Foster, Rye, England [receipt from Kate Foster; in curatorial object file]; sold to Doris and Stanford D. Marks, Chicago, Feb. 1988; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025.

Coffeepot

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

c. 1710–20, decorated c. 1729–30

Accession Number

277823

Medium

Enameled and gilded hard-paste porcelain

Dimensions

20.1 × 13 × 11 cm (7 15/16 × 5 1/8 × 4 3/8 in.)

Classification

coffeepot

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and the Walter E. Heller Foundation, Richard T. Crane Jr. Memorial, and Mary Waller Langhorne endowment funds