A rare Coalport ‘Animal Service’ coffee can and saucer, circa 1805 (1)
A rare Coalport ‘Animal Service’ coffee can and saucer, circa 1805 (1) - Image 2
A rare Coalport ‘Animal Service’ coffee can and saucer, circa 1805 (1) - Image 3
A rare Coalport ‘Animal Service’ coffee can and saucer, circa 1805 (1) - Image 4
A rare Coalport ‘Animal Service’ coffee can and saucer, circa 1805 (1) - Image 5
A rare Coalport ‘Animal Service’ coffee can and saucer, circa 1805 (1) - Image 6
A rare Coalport ‘Animal Service’ coffee can and saucer, circa 1805 (1) - Image 7
A rare Coalport ‘Animal Service’ coffee can and saucer, circa 1805 (1) - Image 8
A rare Coalport ‘Animal Service’ coffee can and saucer, circa 1805 (1) - Image 9

A rare Coalport ‘Animal Service’ coffee can and saucer, circa 1805 (1)

The can painted with ‘The old English Hound’, and the saucer with ‘The Greyhound Fox’, titled in red to the bases.

Dimensions:  can 6cm high, saucer 14cm diameter

Condition: 2 cm hairline to rim of can (only visible under UV light), some staining to inner rim of and slight glaze craze to base; slight gilt wear to saucer.

Note:  These pieces may have been painted by Charles Muss – see Edmundson R. and Cadman K., Northern Ceramic Society Journal – Charles Muss, Part 2

See also Halls Auction, 9th October 2024, lot 78, for another coffee can and saucer from this service.

The animal painting from which this service takes its title is inspired by Thomas Bewick,  A History of Quadrupeds, published in 1800.

 

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