Conical coffee pot on footring, wide mouthrim. High, conical lid with protruding rim and pointed knob. S-shaped spout and, placed at a right angle, a C-shaped handle. So-called Batavia Brown, covered with underglaze dark brown. Decorated in pink, white, turquoise and yellow enamel on the glaze with peony sprays and a small chrysanthemum spray in the two large, pendent leaf-shaped panels on the body. The same decoration in the two smaller panels on the lid.
Much coffee was consumed at home and in coffee houses in The Netherlands from the end of the 17th century. The beans came primarily from Yemen, and only later from Java. As tea, coffee also required its own utensils, the coffee pot naturally being the most important piece. The shape of this pot evokes late 17th-century copper and pewter pots. The right-angled handle is often seen on this type, but is more rare on bulbous coffee pots, see, for example, cat. 94. It is interesting that the VOC gave orders in 1766 that the handles of conical pots be placed opposite the spout (Jörg). For comments on Batavia Brown, see cat. 82.