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Porcelain tea and coffee sets with matching trays (déjeuners) were made for one or two persons to serve themselves in private apartments. The design and elaboration of the decoration of the sets signalled their owner’s taste and wealth. \r\n\r\nTea and coffee were not served together at the same time, so the same saucers were often used with both tea and coffee cups. The design of tea cups evolved as the eighteenth century progressed, but tea cups were generally lower and more open in shape than coffee cups. However, it is clear from the records at Sèvres that in France at least certain shapes could be used interchangeably for coffee or tea.\r\n\r\nThis is one of a small number of tea and coffee sets very finely decorated with scenes from Goethe's novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' and made at the Meissen porcelain factory in the late 1780s. All have the same vessel shapes, and certain of the components of the several services are painted with the same subjects and scenes. Some of this decoration is after preliminary design drawings by Johann David Schubert (1761-1822), who worked as teacher of drawing at the factory's drawing school from 1786 and who became principal painter at the factory in 1795, and some of Schubert's designs were in turn copied from prints.","physicalDescription":"Teapot and lid from a breakfast service. 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The story parallels elements of Goethe's own experience. Werther falls in love with Lotte, a 19 year old who has already been engaged for four years to Albert, a man 11 years her senior. After failing to distance himself from Lotte and his futile love for her, Werther finally chooses suicide as his only release from his torment.","briefDescription":"Teapot from a breakfast service of porcelain painted in enamel colours with scenes from Goethe's <font -u>Sorrows of Young Werther</font>, and gilt; probably painted by Johann David Schubert, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1790","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"In Angelika Müller-Scherf's <u><i>Wertherporzellan</i></u> this teapot is catalogue no. 7.4, p. 104.  The source for the decoration on the front, (7.4a) is unknown.  It relates to an incident near the beginning of the book recounted in the letter dated 27th May. Werther meets the schoolmaster’s daughter and her children in the village of Walheim.  The identical scene is on the teapot in the private collection service, catalogue 8.3a, p. 114.  The Stuttgart service teapot also has the same scene although it differs slightly in some details, see catalogue 6.4a, p.91.  The reverse (7.4b) is after Schubert’s watercolour sketch, catalogue 24, p. 134 and relates to the letter dated 26th May in the novel.  It shows Werther sitting on a plough under a tree sketching one of Charlotte’s brothers playing with his little brother seated on his lap.  The same scene is used on the reverse of the private collection teapot, (8.3b p. 114) and one of the Stuttgart teacups, (6.6, p.95).\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":["Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. <font -u>Die Leiden des jungen Werther</font> [The sorrows of Young Werther], 1774."],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Tea and coffee service\r\nAbout 1789\n\nThis elaborate service is painted with scenes from Goethe’s hugely successful The Sorrows of Werther (1774). The novel is about a young man torn apart by hopeless passions. It satisfied a late 18th-century liking for a literature of ‘sensibility’, which explored states of human passion, distress and tenderness, and provoked an emotional response in the reader.\r\n\r\nGermany (Dresden)\r\nMade at the Meissen factory\r\nPorcelain painted in enamels and gilded","date":{"text":"09/12/2015","earliest":"2015-12-09","latest":"2015-12-09"}}],"partNumbers":["1328B/1-1871","1328B/2-1871"],"accessionNumberNum":"1328","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1871,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Teapot","Cover"],"assets":["2019MC1691"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2004-04-07","availableToBook":false}}