40. Coffee Pot

Such was the dominance of Chinese porcelain in Europe that even when Europe produced its own pottery, initially stoneware, and from 1710 at Meissen, porcelain, customers wanted a Chinese aesthetic.
 
Coffee became the must have drink in Europe in the 17^th C. Sourced from the Levant and then India and from the 19^th C Brazil. The Levant Trading Co. brought the coffee culture to England and the first Coffee Houses opened in the 1650s.
 
This item: A Meissen coffee-pot, stoneware, of quadrangular form with curved sides to imitate Chinese lacquer ware.  The lower section, part moulded with flowering branches in oriental style, is decorated in gold, silver and red lacquer with a Chinese landscape scene with two houses on stilts by a rock and beside a pine tree. This coffee pot was made in 1711-1713 and is 15 cms tall.