Browsing through a selection of still lives I was struck by the regular appearance of the humble coffee pot, specifically the tall kind with an elegant spout. Are they simply accessible objects? Are painters caffeine fiends? Or is there more to this phenomenon. Perhaps fresh coffee imbues artists' work with added sophistication or maybe they are pitting themselves against their key influences - after this selection, please look out for coffee pots in works by, say, Van Gogh (Still Life with Coffee Pot, 1888)or the Cubists (Woman with a Coffee Pot, Jean Metzinger, 1919). Mind you, these days I prefer a flat white.
Still Life with Ivy 1958
Sandy Cheyne (b.1935)
Oil on board
H 59.1 x W 67.8 cm
Art & Heritage Collections, Robert Gordon University
Silver Ink Stand, Mug and Copper Coffee Pot c.1860–1874
Joséphine Bowes (1825–1874) (attributed to)
Oil on card
H 8.5 x W 27 cm
The Bowes Museum
Still Life with Coffee Pot 1915
Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934)
Oil, bodycolour & collage on cardboard
H 50 x W 37 cm
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
William Scott (1913–1989)
Oil on canvas
H 67.2 x W 81 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery
Silver Coffee Pot on a Silver Tray
The Coffee Pot 1950
Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
Oil on canvas
H 54.5 x W 37.5 cm
RWA (Royal West of England Academy)
Still Life with Two Coffee Pots and Wooden Boards 1976
Hugh Farren (b.1939)
Oil on canvas
H 92.9 x W 51.6 cm
Art & Heritage Collections, Robert Gordon University
Still Life with Coffee Pot c.1948–1950
Ernest Zobole (1927–1999)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 76 cm
University of South Wales Art Collection Museum
Alison Daubercies de Morán (b.1931)
Oil on canvas
H 105 x W 55 cm
University of Warwick
Still Life Coffee Pot on Stool 1952
Mollie E. N. Langlands
Oil on canvas
H 55.9 x W 45.7 cm
Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh)
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