Coffee Pot without Lid

Caughley Porcelain Manufactory

late 1750s to 1785

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Modeled after a fire mark issued by the United Fireman's Insurance Company of Philadelphia in 1860 (reproduction).
Oval portrait medallion in black basalt depicting Captain James Cook (1728-1779) facing front, his head slightly left, wearing civilian dress.
Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet and critic, born in London, his father being a Roman Catholic linen-draper..
Round basalt medallion with encaustic profile portrait of Dr Daniel Solander (1736-1782), with self-frame. Solander was a Swedish naturalist who studied at the University of Uppsala, taking an M.D Degree later becoming an employee at the British Museum