Art period: Regency
Maker: Job Ridgway & Sons
This dazzling Job Ridgway coffee can is hand-painted with alternating panels of iron-red raspberry fruit surmounted by gilt thistle heads on a cobalt-blue ground, and diagonal gilt-and-blue diamonds on an iron-red ground. The centre, at the bottom of the can, is brightly painted with stylised flowers and leaves in pale blue, green, dark blue, iron-red and gilt. The pattern number, 452, is painted on the base of the can and dates from around 1810.
Condition Excellent. Tiny spot of rubbed gilding on lower handle rib. A small porcelain indentation at the base is a manufacturing flaw.
Height: 5.9 cm; Diameter: 6.5 cm; Width across handle: 8.5 cm
Net weight: 87 g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
Origin: Cauldon Place, Stoke-on-Trent, England
For background on the factory, see Ridgway pottery at Cauldon Place in Makers & Artists
