Coffee set

1811, France, Manufacture impériale de Sèvres
Type: porcelain
The set consists of cups and saucers, a milk jug, a coffee jug and a sugar bowl. It is decorated with painted flowers in bands or medallions and gilding. Stamped on the underside is the maker’s mark: a red arrow and trefoil. The Manufacture impériale de Sèvres was the most important French porcelain factory and one of the most important in Europe. This set was purchased in Paris in 1811 by Angelo Calafati, prefect of Istria. It later passed into the hands of the Cadamuro Morgante family of Koper, who then sold or traded it to the Trieste antiquarian Fano, from whom the Comune di Capodistria (as it was then) purchased it for the museum in 1916.