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

The can painted with ‘The Quebec Marmot’ and the saucer with ‘The Spotted Cavey’, titled in red to the bases.

Dimensions:  can 6cm high, saucer 14cm diameter

Condition: Some gilt wear to can and saucer, 3cm very faint hairline to rim of can (not visible in images). Glaze star to reverse of saucer only visible under UV light.

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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