Black basalt coffee pot
c. 1780-1800
19th century
8 1/2 in. x 4 in. x 4 in.
Artist/Maker Unknown,
,
Unidentified,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
stoneware
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.266
An English stoneware pitcher made from a type of black stoneware known as basalt. It has a pear-shaped body and a round foot. The lower portion of the body is ribbed and the spout has relief decoration. : Black basalt with engine-turned vertical ribs, press-molded handle and snip, footed baluster. Lacking lid.